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Refugees slaughtered on the
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by Makcls Tanner
and Emma Daly
in Kukes

NATO was thrown on to the de-
fensive yesterday when Serbia
claimed three alliance jets fired
rackets at two separate refugee
convoys in Kosovo, killing at
least GO Albanian civilians.

The Serbs said the jets at-
tacked two convoys of tractors
and cars transporting Albanian
civilians in the west of the
province between the ethni-
cally’ cleansed cities of Prizren
and Djakovica. and arranged
for a Reuters photographer to
visit the scene.

However; doubt was thrown
on the Serb claims almost im-
mediately by international ob-
servers over the border in
Albania. "We are hearing that
a helicopter went by and threw
grenades out; were hearing re-
ports that a MiG flew by and
bombed the column,” said
Owen O'Sullivan an OSCE
monitor in Kukes. He said he
was "most surprised” that none
. of the wounded from the
%tragedy had crossed into
^ Kukes, which is near the scene
of the reported attack.

In Washington the Penta-
gon said it believed Nato jets
had attacked a mixed miiitiuy-
dvUiaa convoy and that the
Serbs had retaliated for the
strike by attacking the
refugees. "We have had re-
ports that Yugoslav planes may
have been attacking Yugoslav
convoy's,” the Pentagon spokes-
man, Kenneth Bacon, said.

Nato’s spokesman, Jamie
Shea, also said it was possible
the Serbs had carried out the
attack themselves, as they had
been using low-flying aircraft in
the province.

Frightened refugees who
crossed the Albanian border at
Morini last night confirmed
that a convoy had been bombed
but tbqy did not know by whom.
One man said: "We saw the de-
stroyed tractors by the side of
the road There were at least 10
bodies. Some did not have
heads or arms or legs.”

• He added: “There were
three planes in the attack, but
we did not see them well
enough to know what sort they
were."

His companions said they
had been travelling for days,
after the Serbs expelled them
at gunpoint from the Is tog area,
and had been hiding for part of

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that time in the hills.

The Serb Media Centre,
based in the Kosovo capital of
Pristina, said the first column
of about 1,000 Albanians was hit
twice near the village of Meja,
dose to Djakovica, while the
second smaller column was hit
on the road between Prizren
and Djakovica. "In the village
of Meja, 64 people were killed
and 20 wounded including three
Serb policemen who were es-
corting the convoy," it said. “In
the village of Zrze, six people
were killed and 12 wounded”

The Reuters photographer
filmed blood-stained bodies
lying on a road near aban-
doned tractors.Pillows and
blankets were scattered around
as well as human remains.

In Brussels, the alliance ad-
mitted attacking “military tar-
gets" in the Prizren- Djakovica
area but said it would need to
scrutinise the film brought bads
by the returning planes before
making further comment It is
understood that British planes
were not involved

The Prime Minister said he
feared a tragedy was being
manipulated by the propagan-
da machine of President Slo-
bodan Milosevic. "You can’t
take at face value any claim
made by the Serb authorities;
everything they do, they use for
propaganda purposes," Tony
Blair said “We go to extraor-
dinary lengths to avoid civilian
casualties at all times. The re-
sponsibility for anything that
happens to people in this con-
flict rests with Milosevic."

Belgrade's foreign ministry
had no doubts. Calling the at-
tack a "crime against humani-
ty", a spokesman sidestepped
the question of why the Alban-
ian civilians were refugees in
the first place.

There was no official expla-
nation of where the Serb police
were “escorting" the refugees,

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An ethnic Albanian boy near the Kosovo village of Meja where Serbia claimed 64 people died when a refugee convoy was hit by Nato jets Goran Tbmasevic/Reuters

although it appears they were
being driven out of Kosovo to
Albania to join the half million
Kosovars deported to neigh-
bouring countries by the Serbs
in the last three weeks.

If Nato does turn out to bave
massacred Kosovar civilians, it
will -at least temporarily - deal
a big blow to the alliance's
credibility and demolish its
claim to be taking the greatest
possible precautions to avoid
civilian casualties. It will also
embarrass the guerrilla fight-

ers of the Kosovo Liberation
Army, who have been working
in close connection with Nato
and supposedly informing them
of potential targets in Kosovo.

Yesterday's attacks follow
the earlier mistaken strike on
a train near the southern Ser-
bian town of Leskovac, in which
at least 10 civilians were killed.
Nato’s Supreme Commander.
General Wesley Clark, said it
was an “uncanny accident"
that a train was trussing the
bridge at the very moment

Nato was trying to bomb it. He
said when the pilot saw the
train move on to the bridge it
was already too late to hold fire.

Belgrade had the most rea-
son to exult from the blunder.
“I don't think those people in
Brussels are going to get away
with this." said Miodrag
Popovic. a Serbian information
minister. And while the alliance
was put on the defensive, the
spotlight was entirely taken off
the Serbs’ continuing campaign
to ethnically cleanse the

province. Yesterday the Serbs
forced another 3.000 Albanian
civilians to the southern fron-
tier with Macedonia.

The United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees,
Sadako Ogata, yesterday said
525,000 Kosovo refugees were
outside the Serb province but
had no idea how many re-
mained inside Kosovo. "We

don't know exactly how many
there are because many of
them have left and were forced
to leave,’’ she said

Support for German peace plan

GERMANY WON broad Euro-
% pean backing last night for a
s peace plan for Kosovo, but not
for the specific offer to the Yu-
goslav President, Slobodan
Milosevic, of a 24-hour sus-
pension of Nato air strikes if he
starts pulling forces out of the
province.

With Kofi Annan, the UN
secretary-general at an emer-
gency summit of European
leaders in Brussels, heads of
government identified a new
and central role for the UN at
the centre of diplomatic moves
and stepped up efforts to woo
Russian backing for a negoti-
ated settlement The EU lead-
ers also promised to examine
a parallel plan, proposed by the

By Stephen Castle
in Brussels

French President Jacques
Chirac, that the EU should
take charge of the civilian ad-
ministration of Kosovo.

But the EU leaders reiter-
ated backing for the air cam-
paign. The specifics of the
plan proposed by Joschka Fis-
cher; the German Fbreign Min-
ister, proved contentious.

Tbny Blair, said military' ob-
jectives had to be seen through
before peace plans details
could be discussed. A British
source said: “Ybu have to be
resolute in a military cam-
paign. There can be no com-
promise: Milosevic has to back

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■ Robert Fisk

■ Macedonian influx

down." Bonn's initiative,
worked on for two weeks 'ey Mr
Fischer, includes a 24-hour halt
to air strikes to give Yugoslavia
a chance to start withdrawing
its forces from Kosovo.

Yesterday Bonn said its pro-
posal was consistent with the
demands by Nato for hostilities
to end: that Mr Milosevic
should cease military actions,
withdraw military, paramilitary

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page 4

and police forces from Kosovo,
agree to an international mili-
tary presence in Kosovo, allow
the return of refugees and un-
dertake to work on the basis of
the Rambouillet accord. Ger-
hard Schroder, the German
Chancellor, said he favoured a
new UN resolution Lo give its
blessing to the role of any
peace-keeping force.

Mr Blau*, when asked if the

German and Nato proposals
were compatible, evaded the
question: “Any proposal that we
put forward has to be My in ac-
cordance with Nato conditions
and. after all, we lie the Ger-
mans | are all members of Nato
and this action has been take
for very specific reasons."

Behind the scenes. Britain
was careful not to dismiss the
German proposals, believing
they may provide the basis for
a political settlement once
there are dear signs Mr Milo
sevie intends to back down.

Mr Annan ruled out an im-
mediate peace mission lo Bel-
grade but hinted that a visit at
some point is likely. "We need
to intensify' the search fora po-

litical solution.” be said. “It is
not going to be easy. We have
to be careful it is very’ delicate."

The main difference of em-
phasis lies in the timing of any
peace initiative and the will-
ingness to go into detail now
about the shape of a settlement
package. In contrast to British
reluctance to get drawn into
specifics, Hubert Vedrine, the
French Foreign Minister, high-
lighted the UN's role and
added: “The good solution
would be to manage to define,
within the framework of the Se-
curity Council, a form of in-
ternational protection, allowing
both for the autonomy of Koso-
vo and for restoring security for
all Kosovo people.”

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the independent

Thursday 15 April 1999

“There is broad
international support for
a 24-hour ceasefire"

Guenther Verheugen ,
German State Secretary

“‘Life is nasty, brutish and
short.’ I think that is true
for Albanians in Kosovo"

Nato spokesman Jamie
Shea, quoting Hobbes

“If there are any more
incursions into Albanian
territory we have to react"

Rexhep Meidani,
Albanian President

"Supplying arms to anyone
involved in this conflict
would be against the law"

George Robertson,
Defence Secretary

“Who are these soldiers
who are ready to kill and
not ready to die?"

Philippe Morillon ,
retired French general

“Serbian forces are taking -
young men away and we^
don’t know where" ;

Man who crossed the
border yesterday

Yeltsin envoy

has strong

ties to West

RUSSIA

BY PHIL REEVES in MOSCOW

BORIS YELTSIN has softened
his stance on the Balkans war
by naming a former prime min-
ister with strong lies to the TOsst
as the Kremlin's special envoy
for resolving the conflict The
appointment of Viktor Cher-
nomyrdin suggests Mr Yeltsin
is moving beyond explosive de-
nunciations of the Nato air
strikes - such as his infamous
"Third World War" warning -
towards securing a position for
Russia as mediator:

Although the majority of
Russian politicians have con-
demned Nato, Mr Cher-
nomyrdin has been less vocal
than most As prime minis ter
from 1992 to 1998, he acquired
a reputation as a compromiser
who leans considerably more to
the West than the current
Prime Minister, Yevgeny Pri-
makov, or his government

Moscow knows that the
Kosovo war could provide it
with a golden opportunity to
play a starring diplomatic role,
its best chance to do so since
tbe break-up of the Soviet
Union. It also knows this means
ignoring domestic pressure to
give unqualified support to the
Serbs. Mr Yeltsin -if not his ad-
ministration, with whom he
has strained relations - ap-
pears to be trying to grasp that
opportunity.

Russia should take the
chance to end the bloodshed
now, "when there are neither
winners nor losers", Mr Cher-
nomyrdin said yesterday.
Moscow would step up its diplo-
matic efforts "in all directions”
to bring an end to Nalo bomb-
ing. But, in an unusually even-
handed remark by Russian
standards, he said that both
“belligerent parties” should be
brought to the negotiating table.

Although the 61-year-old is
derided as a fat-cat windbag by

many Russians who resent his
role in the failed market re-
forms. he has the advantage of
good connections. He is per-
sonally acquainted with the
two biggest players, Slobodan
Milosevic and Bill Clinton,
whom he p lans to visit soon.

A gas industry baron, Mr
Chernomyrdin is generally ap-
proved of by Western leaders,
who see him as a member of the
now exiled team of market re-
formers who once dominated
the Russian government The
Kremlin yesterday was keen to
advertise his “great political ex-
perience", and “broad interna-
tional recognition".

Mr Yeltsin's move comes
amid a general toning down of
Russia's expressions of out-
rage over tiie Yugoslav war,
after an initial burst of fury. The
most striking example of its
new strategy came during
Tuesday’s meeting in Oslo of
Madeleine Albright, the US
Secretary of State, and her
Russian counterpart, Igor
Ivanov. Although their talks
brought little concrete
progress, both sides vowed to
continue talking and there was
a largely co-operative mood.
This was a far cry from last
week, when Boris Yeltsin was
spouting angry warnings about
Russia being drawn into a
Third World War; while news
headlines - inaccurate, as it
turned out - said Moscow was
re-aiming nuclear missiles at
Nato countries.

In recent days, Russian TV
coverage of the dispute has be-
come more balanced, and now
includes accounts of the suf-
fering of the refugees alongside
reports of the damage wreaked
Nato bombs. News of the Yu-
goslav parliament's vote to join
tile Russia- Belarus union was
greeted coolly in Moscow; pub-

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lie opinion surveys showed
more than two-thirds of Rus-
sians are not interested in join-
ing a political embrace with
their troubled Slavic cousins.
“All this pan-Slavic talk is com-
plete rubbish, the invention of
a perverted Russian political
elite,” said Andrei Piontkovsfcy,
a leading Moscow political com-
mentator

Even the tub-thumping na-
tionalist mayor of Moscow, Yuri
Luzhkov - who yesterday
played host to British busi-
nessmen - has shown signs of
backing away from his first
fiery response, notably his de-
mand that Russia should sup-
ply military aid to the Serbs.
The feet that 20 per cent of the
Russian population is Muslim
has finally begun to filter up to
the ivory towers occupied by
the political ruling elite. Com-
bine that with the country's
need for Western loans and in-
vestment, and it becomes clear
that Russia could not sensibly
give unqualified support to Mr
Milosevic - even if it wanted to.

As ever. Machiavellian
Kremlin politics are at work be-
hind the scenes. Tbe appoint-
ment of Mr Chernomyrdin is a
jab by Mr Yeltsin at his Prime
Minister; Mr Primakov. The
latter is a former foreign min-
ister, who coveted the chance
to mediate in Yugoslavia for
himself. He is also the Kremlin's
second-choice premier, who
got the job after Mr Yeltsin
failed to persuade parliament
to approve the return of Mr
Chernomyrdin last year.

By restoring the veteran ex-
premier to the centre stage, Mr
Yeltsin is trying to remind Mr
Primakov who is in charge.
But the President is a much
weakerman these days, and his
rival can be expected to
counter-attack soon.

A refugee carrying her belongings through a camp at Knkes. Conditions for the 100,000 refugees in Albania are deteriorating tost Reuters

The civilians pay in blood

BLOOD IS beginning to spat-
ter Nato's campaign in Yu-
goslavia. Just under two
weeks ago. it was the blood of
26 Serb civilians in the town
of Aleksinac. Then on Monday,
it was the blood of 27 Serb pas-
sengers - the latest figure
for totalities - on a railway
train bombed by a Nato jet

Yfesterday, up to 60 Kosovo
Albanian refugees were re-
ported torn to pieces by Nato
bombs in Kosovo. That phrase
“collateral damage" is begin-
ning to sound ever more
obscene.

Needless to say, the Serb
government is happy to pub-
licise these atrocities -just as
Nato is reacfy and willing to re-
port every atrocity committed
by Serb forces in Kosovo. But

ROBERT FISK

Nato’s new ground rules are
playing into Serbian hands.

For it is becoming clearer
that somewhere - in Wash-
ington, perhaps, or Brussels
or the Aviano air base in Italy
- someone has decided that
Serb civilians must suffer for
their country’s sins. Or that
their lives can now be re-

garded as forfeit if they live
near a barracks or an airfield
or happen to be on a passen-
ger train.

The Serb authorities - who
denied the stories told by
thousands of Albanian
refugees of "ethnic deans-
ing" at the hands of Serb
forces- were quite specific in
their description of the slaugh-
ter of as many as 75 Albanian
refugees, first near the village
of Medjan, at 130pm, then at
Bisfrazin at 3pm. The Kosovo
Albanians were travelling in
cars and tractors, “escorted”
by at least three Serb police-
men. The policemen were also
killed.

Did Nato believe these
were Serbs driving down the
roads of southern Kosovo?

Or did they see military traf-
fic and decide - as they did
when they bombed a barracks
50 metres from a Belgrade
hospital on Tuesday - that
the risk of harmin g civilians
was worth taking? That now
seems to be Nato’s policy in its
bombardment of Yugoslavia.

Wesley Clark, the general
who thought he could fight a
war without ground troops,
gave a deeply unsettling per-
formance this week when he
tried to explain the train mas-
sacre.

The pilot saw the train enter
his bonfo frame only at tiie last
second, he said. But then -in-
crecfibty knowfagthe train was
there - he returned to fire two
more missiles at the railway
bridge.

BRIEFING:.

DAY 22

■ Or Nato's 5.924
missions so far. only

1 .687 have been bombing
missions.

■ South Korea will
donate $lm worth of
blankets.

■ State-owned Air Bosnia
said yesterday it would
resume flights to
Germany and Turkey after
a three-week closure of
the country's airports.

■ Volunteers at Children's
Aid Direct have packed
over J jDOP boxes with aid
in the past four days.

■ Turkey has accepted
more than 10,000
refugees since the
beginning of the week.
Albania has taken in about
three times as many
refugees as Macedonia.

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into Slavko Curuvija's grave, a
copy of Dnevni Telegraf that
Sopped into the pit and landed
witha soft thump on the editor’s
coffin. They threw in bunches
of carnations that bounced off
the lid and came to rest in the
soft dark earth around iL And
as the Curuvija family stood to-
gether, a frieze of linked arms
and tearless shock, a young
Serb journalist from the long-
banned paper uttered words
that should remain printed in
the conscience of every news-
paperman.

“They claimed ours was a
vulgar paper” he said as the
birds called in the chestnut
trees above us. “But if it was to
appear on the streets today, you
could not find a single expres-
sion to embrace the events
that brought us here - even if
we sought all the words in a
journalist's vocabulary.

“What a terrible irony that
we cannot even make a full re-
port of a newspaperman’s mur-
der Let it be said that on Easter
Sunday. 1999, between two air
raid sirens, Slavko Curuvija
was killed.”

That is more than it got on
the Belgrade evening news.
-For the government radio and
"television services last night,
Curuvija’s funeral - like his
murder - was a non-event
While the brave thousand
turned up for his last journey -
Yugoslav journalists, acade-
mics. a social gallery of the in-
tellectual left with an eye on the

Slavko Curuvija (left), the slain newspaper editor who defied Milosevic. At his funeral < above), his son Rade led the cortege, bearing a wooden marker with his father's name on it

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photographers who might be
taking pictures for the state se-
curity police - the people ofMi-
goslavia heard only of the state
visit of President Alexander
Lukashenko of Belarus who
came to offer his country's
moral (but definitely not mili-
tary* support for President
Milosevic.

Even as we waited outside
the memorial chapel of the
Zvezdera cemetery, opposite
the graveyard of the martyrs of
Belgrade’s 1944 liberation, the
All Clear bad sounded, a
mournful howl that soon
merged into the off-tune trom-
bone and drum funeral march.

Curuvija had been shot on
the Orthodox Easter Day, four
days ago. and his family stand-
ing round the flower-heaped
coffin, were shaking hands as
if they didn’t understand who

was in the wooden box: his
son, Rade, crop-haired in a
black tie-less shirt and high-
collared dark jacket his moth-
er, Cuke, eyes black with in-
comprehension. his daughter,
Jdena. long brown hair over the
Shoulders of a smart brown
jacket a beautiful young
woman who would stand beside
the grave a few minutes later,
staring at the mound of flowers
without any sign of emotion.

Who killed him? The ques-
tion was more powerful yes-
terday than it was the afternoon
when two ski-masked gunmen
fired 1 1 bullets into Slavko Cu-
ruvija outside his apartment
block. Fbrmer police agent ex-
friend of the Milosevic family, a
man who had suggested that
only bombing might bring the
president to his senses, he had
critics as well as friends at his

funeral. “He was a dissident
from the Family.” a university
lecturer muttered to us. “This
was sheer revenge. I didn't
know him. But his funeral was
a chance for us to protest"

So why only a few hundred
mourners, I asked? He gave me
a look of dark, suppressed fury.
“It took a lot of courage to
come here," he snapped. “You
obviously don’t know what it’s
like to live in a dictatorship."
Others were more outspoken.
“You died at the hands of Serbs
- this was premeditated" an ag-
itated middle-aged man shout-
ed as the coffin lay on a
concrete slab beside the grave.

Then, after five sweating
municipal gravediggers in blue
overalls and rubber gloves low-
ered the box into the pit with
ropes, another man. in sun-
glasses, even more frightened,

spoke out hurriedly. “Here
sleeps a Serb and the honour of
Serbia," he cried “You didn't die
by a Serbian hand but by the
hand of a traitor."

In the last editorial before his
paper was taken off the streets
in October, Curuvija - a tough,
moneyed arrogant man ac-
cording to colleagues, with a
doubtful past in the police - had
urged President Milosevic to
throw out the extreme nation-
alists in his coalition, the likes
of Vbjislav Sesetj whose White
Eagles militia butchered their
way through Bosnia in 1992 and
who has cemented Yugoslavia
into the union of Russia and Be-
larus. No wonder the mourners
yesterday felt they were brave
to attend Who will be next to fill
a place in the eemeteiy?

There was no cross at Cu-
ruvija's grave and the five-

angled wooden marker that
Rade carried in front of his fa-
ther’s funeral cortege bore only
the words “Slavko Curuvija
1949-1999" and the symbol of
crossed quill pens. There were
tulips and daffodils and gera-
niums and lilies and wreaths
from Radio Index (dosed by
Milosevic) and the old Radio B-
92 (dosed by Milosevic) and
from the staff of his newspa-
pers, Dnevni Telegraf and Eu-
ropijn (dosed by Milosevic).

A lady watching the cortege
had her own very personal rea-
sons for turning up to the fu-
neral. Sejenah had sat dose to
Curuvija the last time he spoke
in public - about the need for a
free press in Yugoslavia - at
Pancevo on 16 March. “He said
he couldn't last for a long time,
so we asked for his prediction
for possible future change. He

said to us. ‘What is needed is a
single spark that wall stimulate
the people in a democratic di-
rection'. We were so sure he
would end up going to prison
that we gave Mr Curuvija a pre-
sent of two books - the poetry
and prose of young Yugoslav au-
thors - which we said he could
read in his prison cell. He
seemed fine, he was quite nor-
mal. None of us could have
imagined what would happen."

For half an hour after the
grave had been dosed, the Cu-
ruvija family sat on a neigh-
bouring tombstone and looked
at the flowers. Jelena remained
standing in her brown dress,
her face expressionless, taking
the weight of Cuke's head on
her shoulder Later, she sat
with ha - brother; arms wrapped
round her knees, still staring at
the grave of her father. There

were gestures of sympathy
from those who fear for Yu-
goslavia's political future. The
wife of Vuk Draskovic - the fed-
eral vice-president and leader
of the Serbian Renewal Party -
was among the mourners, with
the mayor of Belgrade,
Dragoslav Mfliaflovic, grandson
of the wartime Chetnik leader
executed by Tito.

But it was the university
lecturer too frightened to give
his name, the man who had un-
derstood Curuvija’s dangerous
precficamentasanenemyofthe
Family who uttered the most
frightening comment.

“In a war, it’s usually truth
that is the first victim,” he said
to me as we left the cemetery.
“Here, the situation is unusu-
al Here, the first victim of
Nato's bombing was democra-
cy in Serbia.”

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EVEN IN war, the first casual-
ty-just occasionally -need not
be the truth. Sometimes, in-
deed, there is no alternative to
the truth. That was the lesson
of Nato’s bombing of the Serb
train on Monday in which 10
civilians died.

Assuming allied planes were
:r^ mistakenly responsible for yes-
terday’s far deadlier attack on
a refugee convoy in southern
Kosovo, the lesson will be even
more bitter.

In this war, as in every war,
propaganda is a vital weapon.
It is vital for the Western
democracies, where strategies
ultimately depend on public
opinion - but it is also vital for

Belgrade. By fast public rela-
tions footwork, Nato has neu-
tralised the train disaster. If
confirmed, the slaughter of
refugees -70 ethnic Albanians,
according to the Serbs - will be
far harder to cope with.

Convince the public the
cause is just, liken the enemy
to Hitler, sanitise every nasti-
ness perpetrated by your side,
and daim you are firmly on the
way to victory - these are the
rules of the game. Both sides
have been faithfully playing
them. Until the train on the
bridge at Leskova c.

The affair could have been a
PR disaster; proof of how the al-
lies in their frustration at their
failure to land a knockout blow
to the Milosevic military ma-
chine were sinking to terror
bombing of helpless civilians.
Prevarication, or pretending
the train was a legitimate mil-
itary target, would have made
matters even worse.

Instead, we witnessed a rare
and deliberate show of honesty.
It was an “unfortunate acci-
dent..- we are all very sorry for
it,” Nato's supreme comman-
^ dec General Wesley Clark, said
.v as the press was shown a full
cockpit video of the incident
The pilot, it transpired, had
fired not one bomb, but two; the
second after he knew he had hit
a train. Quite why that second
attack happened is unclean
But we basically know waat
happened, and few more ques-

Analysis

By Rupert Cornwell

The Nato spokesman Jamie Shea briefs the press; a fog
of confusion surrounds the war’s aims EPA

tions need to be asked. If allied
planes hit the refugee convoy
near Djakovica, we must brace
for a far more harrowing mea
culpa from Nato - and, con-
ceivably, a sea change in pub-
lic attitudes to the air war.

Belgrade’s forays into the
propaganda war have been
more comic than threatening:
“88 Nato men dead and 32
planes lost”, ran a front-page

headline last week in the Greek
daily Athinaiki, gleefully re-
ported by the official Yugoslav
news agency Thqjug. News in-
deed to warm Seri) hearts, but
somewhat at variance with the
one verified loss of an F-117.

Indeed, two mysteries of this
strangest of wars are the tiny
scale of Nato losses (one air-
craft and, as far as can be as-
certained, not a single life -
astonishing given the advance
publicity about Serb air de-
fence capabilities) and the
small civilian death toll in Ser-
bia caused by the bombing -
until yesterday, at least, under
100. Had there been more, we
would certainly have known.

Then there have been the
tales put out by the Serbian In-
formation Ministry of
“columns" of deserters from
the Nato force stationed in Yu-
goslavia, donning civilian

clothes and streaming into
Greece and Bulgaria, and of
conscience-stricken Norwegian
pilots who refused to take part
in the air attack, and returned
home to the cheers of their
countrymen. For those who
dare criticise, there may be the
fate of Slavko Curuvija, the in-
dependent newspaper owner
shot dead outside his Belgrade
apartment on Sunday.

Nato, of course, propagates
its own brand of wishful think-
ing. Early on, we were told of
Kosovo Albanian leaders who
had been murdered. II tran-
spired they had not and Nato.
admittedly, retracted the daim.
On Sunday its spokesmen were
daiming to detect fissures in the
Yugoslav army’s high command
over President Milosevic’s pol-
icy in Kosovo. The next day, de-
spite every sign that the war is
solidifying support for Milose-
vic, the Secretary of State for
Defence, George Robertson,
was virtually predicting a coup.

But these are small errors,
set against the giant shadow
cast over everything the allies
say by the miscalculation with
which the war started. A few
days, they said, just a handful
of cruise missiles, before the
dictator came to his senses.

“We always knew this would

be a long haul" Nato now in-
sists. If so, then everything it
implied, if not said aloud, before
24 March was nonsense. Bui did
not World War One begin with
the blithe conviction the boys
would be home for Christmas?

So far. Western public opin-
ion doubts about the air war
strategy have been submerged
by the flood of horror stories of
pillage, rape and murder com-
mitted by the Serbs. But these
stories, too. could in turn be sub-
merged by the horror of what
apparently happened near the
Kosovo town of Djakovica.

For the Serbs, the carnage
was a propaganda coup: a
“crime against humanity" ac-
cording to the Foreign Ministry
in Belgrade - exactly the lan-
guage used by Nato leaders to
describe Mr Milosevic’s tactics.

The attack strikes at the
heart of the weakness of Naius
presentation of the war - not
lies over daily events, but the
fog of confusion and contra-
dictions surrounding the war’s
ends. Suddenly Kosovo is ac-
quiring the reek of Vietnam.

“We will win the war." say
Blair. Clinton et aL day after
successive day of bombing tar-
gets that never seem to be de-
stroyed the first time around.
Ah, but the bombing is working,
they insist, only to order an-
other 300 aircraft to finish the
job - and risk more disasters
similartoyesterday’s Delving,
if not the truth, at least ele
mentary common sense, they
cling to the Rambouillet for-
mula that Kosovo remains part
oflftigoslavia even after the war

Do they really think it can?
Do they really believe that hav-
ing uprooted more than one
million Kosovo Albanians, and
sent 500,000 of them fleeing in
terror. Mr Milosevic will meek
ly admit the folly of iiis ways and
let them back in?

Public opinion is already
asking these questions. Soon-
er or later; the gap between the
demonisation of Milosevic and
the refusal to send in a single
ground soldier after him will be-
come too wide for the most art-
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Albanians from Kosovo waiting yesterday to go to Brazde refugee camp after crossing into Blace, Macedonia Pawel Kopczynkil Reuters

Thousands more head for Macedonia

NATO FORCES, h umani tarian
agencies and the government
of Macedonia were preparing
last night for another massive
influx of refugees into the tiny
Balkan country, amid signs that
Slobodan Milosevic was finally
allowing homeless Albanian
refugees trapped inside Koso-
vo to make their escapa
Plans to hand over the run-
ning of Macedonian refugee
camps from Nato forces to

international humanitarian
agencies were under review
after reports from Kosovo that
as many as 650,000 refugees
might be moving towards the
border. Such an exodus would
severely stretch even Nato and
the United Nations, and would
contribute to growing tension
within Macedonia.

After several days of calm at
the Macedonia-Kosovo border:
an estimated 3.000 refugees

crossed yesterday, and were
last night on buses at the bor-
der crossing of Blace waiting to
be transported to the nearby
Bhtish-run camp at Brazde. Re-
ports from inside Kosovo sug-
gested that having sealed off
the routes out of the province
last week, the Serbian army
was now allowing refugees out
by train and on foot

Most of yesterday's arrivals
came from the town of Urose-

REFUGEES

By Richard lloyd Parry’ in Blace

vac and the surrounding area,
but had been living rough in the
hills and woods for more than
two weeks, having been driven
out of their homes by Serb
forces. Refugees from Ka caulk,
10 miles over the border, said
that more than 70 houses had
been set on fire by Serb police

and paramilitaries.

“1 ran into the mountains and
lived there for IS days," said SaH
So pa. a motel owner from Uro-
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out for persecution because he
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Europe (OSCE). “The soldiers
came into the town and said that
anyone who helped the OSCE
would be killed. Pm lucky to be
here alive."

A British member of the
OSCE's mission in the Mace-
donian capital, Skopje, who is in
regular contact by satellite tele-
phone with commanders in the
Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA), said their estimates of
the n umb er of refugees head-
ing far the border vary from
200,000 to as many as 650,000.
He said: “God alone knows
what Milosevic's overall plan is,
but you can't discount the idea
that he’s using them as a re-
source blocking the flow of
refugees and then letting peo-
ple out through the border to
hamper the international com-
munity, so that everyone's fo-
cusing on the refugees rather
than, say, a land invasion. 1 *

At the nearly Brazde reftigee
camp, hundreds of children

marrhed around the 2,000 tents,

chanting “Nato! Nato!” and,

wifi give up our lives, but we
will never give up Kosovo!"

Brigadier Tim Cross, of the UK

Logistics Brigade, said they
were looking at ways of ex-
panding the huge camp, which
already houses 25,000 people.
Plans to hand over administra-
tion to the UN High Commis-
sioner fix* Refuses were under
review after the latest reports.
“This is a new situation that
we’re looking at and if we're
asked to help, we'Q help,” said
Brigadier Cross.

Meanwhile the UN's Fbod
and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) warned that the forced
eviction of farmers would dev-
astate an area which was al-
ready suffering from a poor
harvest

“Thousands of farms have
been destroyed, left abandoned
or untended, whilst food distri-
bution has been constrained

due to difficulties in move-
ment” the FAO said in a Spe-
cial Alert released from its
Rome headquarters..

“The food situation ... is ex-
pected to deteriorate sharply
and the crisis will have pro-
found long-term food security
implications.”

The executive director .of
the UN's World Fbod Pro^
gramme, Catherine Bertioi,
visited Brazde yesterday.
“There’s no question that far
the people in Kosovo tins is an
emergency - an emergency
for shelter, an emergency for
personal safety and an emer-
gency for food.”

Relief at large numbers of
refugees being allowed out of
Kosovo would be tempered by
international concern about
the effect of another wave of
refugees on the fragile ethnic
mix in Macedonia, where an Al-
banian minority co-exists un-
easily with Macedonian Serbs.

Albanians flee as
war crosses border

Conflict Spreads

BETWEEN THE villages of
Padesh and Koshare, on Alba-
nia’s rugged northern border;
an undeclared border war is
under way between the Yu-
goslav army and Kosovars shel-
tering in the mother country.

The thunder of artillery re-
verberated yesterday across
the cloud-covered mountains
north of the nearby town of
Bajram Cum, as locals from the
villages of Tropqje and Gegaj
packed up and moved out for
fear of another Serbian incur-
sion, after Tuesday’s attack on
the Kamenica border post
Five soldiers from the Koso-
vo Liberation Army have been
killed in the fighting over the
past 48 hours and at least two
wounded. A doctor at the
morgue in Bajram Curri said
four of the bodies had been re-
covered from Serbian territoiy.

One of the wounded, Qamfl
JasipL who joined the KLA ll
months ago, said he and his
comrade Demush Gaxaferi
were injured when a mortar
shell crashed into the village of
Padesh, on the Albanian side of
the border. “There was no fight-

By Emma Daly inTlnpqje

ing at that time. We were help-
ing an Albanian family move to
a safer place” when the shell ex-
ploded near by he explained.

Black smoke rose from the
village of Kamenica yesterday,
and every few minutes came
the nimble of another shell
landing over the ridge.

At a muddy crossroads
above the village of TYopqje,
Sosa Daufcg emerged from a
hollow in the red earth bank
bordering the road. It turned
out to be the entrance tunnel to
a small bunker; one of the thou-
sands of concrete mushrooms
built under the paranoid rule of
Albania’s former dictator
Enver Hoxha. Six people are
staying there now, the only
light coming from a firing slit

“We move only when they
stop bombing and we only go
out for water and bread,” Mrs
Dautaj said. She moved out of
the family home in Tropoje
when it was hit by a shell.

Traffic on the road consist-
ed of KLA tractor- trailers dri-
ven down empty and brought
back full - the loads were cov-
ered with blankets, but ap-

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Albanian refugees have fled or
been Forced from their homes
as a result of Serb ethnic

cleansing of the province and

are now m neighbouring Mace-
donia. Albania and Montenegro,
or have been flown to countries
m the West including Tlirkev

Norway and Sweden J ‘

peared to include wooden am-
munition boxes.

Fighting in the area does not
yet involve the Albanian army,
although border police under
Yugoslav attack in Kamenica
returned fire. And despite Ser-
bian claims to the contrary,
monitors from the Organisation
for Security and Co-operation
in Europe say the KLA is op-
erating without Albanian as-
sistance, logistical or military.

Co-operation between the
two forces “is non-existent”,
said Pier Gonggrijp, chief of the
OSCE mission in Bajram Cum.

However; the KLA has the
run of the place and is busy
training hundreds of recruits.
The Yugoslav army has mined
huge areas of the frontier:

“My opinion is that they
would like to have a cordon son-
itnire, not only on the Kosovo
side but also to have some thing
similar along the Albanian
side,” Mr Gonggrijp said. The
question is whether Tirana ran
tolerate such a policy orwfll feel
compelled to send troops,
heavy weapons or aircraft into
battle alongside the rebels.

Timetable:
Day 22

Wednesday 14 April
J 1 .50am: Arkan. the
Serb militia leader, is
scouring jails of Serbia
for recruits for ethnic
cleansing campaign.
2pm: The Kosovo
Liberation Army's
Kosovapress news
agency reports That
more than i ,000 Kosovo
Albanians have been
killed by “Serbian
terrorist forces" over the
past four days in the
central Drenica region.
Apm: Serbs claim to have
shot down unmanned
German reconnaissance
plane over Kosovo.
A.lOpm: At least 64
Kosovar refugees killed
by Nato air strike on
refugee convoy on a
bridge at Djakoviea in
southern Kosovo, claim
Serbs.

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Stormont stalemate as rivals bicker

ANOTHER DIFFICULT day in
the Northern Ireland talks on
arms decommissioning at
Stormont yesterday led to the
postponement of today's pos-
sible intervention by Tony
Blair and the Irish premier,
Bertie Ahern.

The two prime ministers are
believed to be on stand-by to
travel to Belfast if their pres-
ence would help clinch a deal,
but yesterday brought no new
signs of any breakthrough on

By David mckittrick
I reland Correspondent

the arms issue- They may join
proceedings next week if things
improve.

Yesterday's discussions -
like the previous day's talks -
were devoted more to the vent-
ing of complaints than the pro-
duction of any constructive
new ideas. But the exchanges
were said to have been rea-
sonably even-tempered

Passengers
injured in
10 seconds
of jet terror

a MAN ended up embedded in
the ceiling of an aircraft as hun-
dreds of passengers, including
the Prime Minister’s daughter,
endured a terrifying bout of tur-
bulence over the Pacific Ocean.

Kathiyn Blair, aged 11, was
among 235 passengers on a
British Airways Boeing 747 fly-
ing from Australia to Heathrow.

Fifty minutes before a
scheduled touchdown in Sin-
gapore, it hit “dear air turbu-
lence" - leading to 10 terrifying
seconds in which the plane feU
300ft from its cruising altitude
of 37,000ft, throwing passengers
and cabin crew from their
seats. In the chaos, one man's
wrist was broken and a woman
suffered a broken rib, while 30
other people were injured

Though Ms Blair was not re-
ported to be hurt, the Sight was
delayed for several hours in Sin-
gapore while people were treat-
ed The flight arrived safely in
London yesterday morning
m “There were a lot of people
® flying around the cabin," said
Barry White, from Brisbane,
who was saved from injury by
his fastened seatbelt “Someone
went through the panel of the
ceding. All 1 could see were a
pair of legs hanging out"

by Kate Watson-Smyth
and Charles Arthur

Marlene and Tony Newton,
from Tiverton, Devon, who
were returning from a two-
month holiday in Brisbane with '
their two children, said they
were just about to receive their
dinner when abruptly the plane
fell in the sky.

Mrs Newton said: “We had
just experienced a touch of
turbulence then the aircraft
just dropped A steward who
was pushing his trolley
slammed into the overhead
lockers, food and drink flew
everywhere. People were
hurled out of their seats. It
was just terrifying. Even the
crew looked terrified."

The couple's 1 0-year-old son,
Joshua, said he never wanted
to fly again.

Clear air turbulence is in-
visible and cannot be detected
by radar It results from a se-
vere change in wind speed and
direction of as much as
lOOmph, either up. down, or hor-
izontally. As the aircraft falls, ob-
jects in the cabin are left, behind
- so they appear to shoot up-
wards, like being ina foiling lift.
Though the plane is safe, the

The current talks seem des-
tined. like so many other
Belfast negotiating sessions,
to spend some days going
through apparently unproduc-
tive wrangling before the real
crunch is reached. A source
said: “There's no point in forc-
ing the pace if the parties are
not ready yet to do business."

The atmosphere in the talks
was not helped by some hard-
line rhetoric delivered to the
media at Stormont The Sinn

Fbin president (Jerry Adams,
challenged both the British
and Irish governments to state
publicly whether they had
abandoned the Good Friday
Agreement in favour of the
draft declaration which
emerged from the Hillsbor-
ough talks at the start of this
month.

He said: "AlmosL two million
people voted last year for the
Good Friday Agreement. They
are entitled to knowO the gov-

ernments' intentions." Repub-
licans are much in favour of the
Good Friday document, which
%vas vague on decommission-
ing. and much against the draft
declaration, which laid down
that it was a necessity.

Mo Mowlam, the Secretary
of State for Northern Ireland
quickly responded that the
Agreement was the funda*
mental backstop defining the
activities of the governments.
She declared: "It is nut a case

of one against the other. One is
a fundamental document while
the other is a means of trying
to find a way forward."

During the day. some minor
parties which had been as-
sumed to be in support of
the draft declaration were
critical of it, and of the way
the Government had allegedly
issued it without sufficient
consultation.

Minor loyalist parties which
represent major loyalist para-

military organisations have al-
ready rejected it

All this has introduced a
certain fluidify into the situa-
tion. which some days ago ajr
peared to be a case of Sinn Fein
versus the rest Support for the
declaration now seems by no
means as widespread as had
been thought, though the lister
Unionists are generally sup-
portive.

That party yesterday re-
buked the loyalists for adopting

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A passenger from the turbulence-hit British Airways flight arriving in Heathrow yesterday, wearing a surgical collar

principal risk to passengers
and crew is of slamming into
overhead lockers, and from fly-
ing objects.

The causes of dear air tur-
bulence are unknown, though
distant thunderstorms or the
passage of jet planes on the
same route may contribute.

Between 1981 and 1996 there
were 252 such inddents

thought serious enough to re-
port - as yesterday's one was -
though most are barely no-
ticed by the passengers. A
British Airways spokesman
said yesterday: “The pilots
would have had no warning."

Most cases of dear air tur-
bulence are not serious, and the
pilot usually retains control.
But some are lethaL In 1966. a

BOAC Boeing 707 crashed with
the loss of all 124 people on
board when in a freak aeddent
it was trapped in the lee of
Mount FbjL

In December 1997 one
woman died of head injuries
and 110 people, inducting nine
flight crew, were injured when
a United Airlines Boeing 747 fell
1,000ft from its cruising altitude

of 33.000ft between Ibkyo and
Honolulu.

In the 252 inddents between
1981 and 1996, two passengers
died, 63 had serious injuries and
863 minor ones. Those who
died were not wearing seat-
belts. although the warning
sign was lit Only two of those
seriously injured wore seat-
belts. A BA spokeswoman said:

“Keeping your seatbelt on all
the time that you are seated is
one factor and our view is that
it is better to be buckled in all
the time whatever the circum-
stances."

Ifesterday Downing Street of-
ficials said Ms Blair had been
travelling unescorted back
from a holiday in Australia with
a friend.

a position dose to that of Sinn
Ft in. and for allegedly uttering
implicit threats.

The Ulster Unionist nego-
tiator Reg Empey said: “We’re
getting further intimidation
and threats, and that's coming
regretfully both from republican
and loyalist sources, whose
political ambitions and inter-
ests appear to have coincided
in the last few days with the
joint rejection of the Hillsbor-
ough declaration."

Protein
find may
conquer
jet lag

By steve Connor
Science Editor

SCIENTISTS ARE closer to
eradicating jet lag by finding a
timing mechanism that sets
the body's biological clock.

Jet lag occurs when the body
dock is upset by crossing time
zones. Researchers hope the
discovery may lead to a way of
resetting the internal docks of
airline passengers.

A team from Erasmus Uni-
versity in the Netherlands and
Tohoku University in Japan
say two body proteins, Cry-l and
Cry-2, appear to be affected by
the length of day and night

Examination of human and
mouse DNA found both pro-
teins contained genes similar to
those in plants known to help
control the opening and dosing
of leaves in a 24-hour cycle.

Research results in the jour-
nal Nature showed when mice
lacked Cry-l their body docks
ran an hour foster - deter-
mined by activity on a running
wheel over 24 hours in dark-
ness. With Cry-2 was missing,
the body dock ran an hour
slower. When mice lading both
proteins were exposed to total
darkness for 24 hours a day,
their docks foiled, showing no
cyde of rest and activity dis-
played by normal mice.

Drugs designed to affect or
interfere with the function of the
proteins may eventually help
overcome jet lag.

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forceps birth

AN OBSTETRICIAN who left
the country after allegedly
crushing a baby’s head during
a forceps delivery may be ex-
tradited to Britain to face a
manslaughter charge.

Helmi Noun a former locum
senior registrar at Queen Char-
lotte’s hospital, west London, is
said to have used “grossly ex-
cessive" force in hying to de-
liver the baby. Amos Tutt, who
died an hour after birth on 16
August 1997.

He should have been a
healthy 81b boy but he was
born with a four-inch skull frac-
ture and haemorrhaging. The
pathologist who performed the
post mortem examination said
he had never before seen such
extensive injuries.

Mr Noun who is now prac-
tising in Saudi Arabia, is ac-
cused of serious professional
misconduct by the General
Medical Council which opened
its hearing into the case yes-
terday in his absence.

The obstetrician is alleged to
have made repeated attempts
to deliver the child, “ yanking
and jerking'' the forceps before
discovering that he had mis-
diagnosed the baby’s position

By Jeremy laurance
Health Editor

in the womb. He continued his
attempts, despite protests from
the child's father; Andrew Tutt,

a cancer specialist at the Royal
Marsden Hospital, London, and
requests from colleagues that
he seek a second opinion.

Rosalind Fbster counsel for
the GMC, said one witness bad
seen Mr Nour put his feet up on
the bed to get a better pur-
chase. The “very severe” skull

fracture “can only have been
produced by injudicious ex-
cessive force at the time of the
delivery”, she told the hearing.

The baby's mother; Anne
Hitt, 35, a barrister; said despite
having had an epidural she im-
mediately felt a “dramatic dif-
ference" in the force used by Dr
Nour compared with the earli-
er, gentle tugs by his junior col-
league who had first tried to
deliver the baby.

Mrs Hitt said: “I hadn’t felt
anything up to that point I felt
myself bracing myself on the
bed. After a fat, there was more
yanking, tu gging- strong for-
ward pulling with a jerk, pulling
downwards. I slipped down the

bed” She said she realised
something was very wrong
when she saw the worried faces
of other members of staff stand-
ing at the end of her bed

Dr Hitt told the hearing how
Mr Nour appeared to be pulling
his wife “in several directions,
continually applying force”. He
added “He was continuing to
puli Jt didn't seem to be an ob-
stetrics emergency that re-
quired the sort of force he was
usin g Dr Hitt quickly realised
the delivery was “not being
performed correctly".

Then the baby's heartbeat
started to £aH “I realised some-
thing terrible bad happened He
said he had to turn the baby and
did iL"

Afterwards, Mr Nour, who
had worked in Britain for more
than six years, is alleged to have
made a false entry about his
role in the delivery in the med-
ical records.

Miss Foster earlier said
that Mr Nour had repeatedly
failed to comply with the coun-
cil’s requests about the pro-
ceedings for over a year and
attempts were now being
made to extradite him back to
Britain.

A sudden reminder yesterday of how far off summer is, near Donsland on the edge of Dartmoor; Devon More HiU

Stars cite
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a safety pin, for the broadcast-',
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Conran, a Vespa scootor. -

These were their objeets of
“special significance” selected
to feature, as a “cefebrily draw,
card”, on the Museums and
Galleries Commission’s wg>-
site, which was launched
yesterday. ;

Dame Judi - whoiia&worn
unwieldy crinoline in - count-
less costume dramas; safeHhe
safely pin had been a vital tool
in her career “This has been a
life saver to me on maijy occa-
sions and if it is not already fa
a museum, I think it should be.”

for nostalgia. Zoe Ball, the
media presenter; nominated
the Roberts radio becaraeifre.:
minded her ofher chfldhood. ‘
The Liberal Democrats
leader; Paddy Ashdown, chose
Botticsflfs Primavem . “Ks al-

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and Galleries Commission;
Timothy Mason, said the- web-
site was designed to help visi-
tors and those working; in .
museums. “It wHl provide a one-
stop information pofnt:fora&
museum-related inquiries.”

The ' website address is:
wwwMtisewns.gov.uk -

House of Fraser

21 years’ jail for the
Mardi Gra bomber

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by Ian Burrell
H ome Affairs Correspondent

PRICE

THE MARDI GRA bomber was
jailed for 21 years yesterday for
his three-year reign of black-
mail and terroc Edgar Pearce
showed a “cynical disregard”
for the public in his campaigns
against Barclays Bank and
Sainsbury supermarkets, the
Recorder of London, Michael
Hyam, said in the Old Bailey.

Pearce, 61, from Chiswick,
west London, admitted 23 of-
fences of blackmail, wounding,
possessing firearms and caus-
ing an explosion. He was sen-
tenced to a total of 224 years but
all the various terms were
made concurrent
“Your motives were greed
and an insatiable appetite for
notoriety,” said the judge. Some
of Pearce’s devices, spanning a
period between 1994 and 1998,
were potentially lethal and it

Edgar Pearce: A cynical
disregard for people

was only good fortune no one
was killed or seriously injured
He fell into a police trap
while collecting £700 - the only
money he received - from a
bank cash machine in April
last year. Nadine Radford QC,
for the defence, said Pearce, a
heavy drinker, suffered brain
damage in 1992 when he had a

stroke. This had caused a per-
sonality disorder and led himto.
cany out the blackmail con-^
spiracy she said. Part of his™:
brain had been destroyed, re-.
during his life expectancy and.
his ability to understand the
consequences of his actions.
“He never intended, ip his own
mind, to cause someone in-
jury” she added.

But the judge told Pearce:
“Your plan was to -terrorise
members of the public. From
the start of your criminal ac-
tivity you made it clear you in-
tended to target staff and
customers. This is a measure
of the fear your activities in-
stilled into members of the
public. These offences were
undoubtedly so serious that
only a very substantial custodial
sentence can be justified."

Sainsbury reckoned his
campaign cost the company
£640,000 in lost trade.

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THE GOVERNMENT will not
sack Chris Woodhead the Chief
Inspector of Schools, despite
new allegations by his former
wife that he lied about an affair
with one of his ex-pupils.

Ministers said yesterday
that they would take no further
action over claims by Cathy
Woodhead that her former hus-
band had told her his affair had

begun while he was a teacher
and Amanda Johnston was a
pupil at Gordano School near
Bristol.

Mr Woodhead has insisted
that the nine-year affair began
only- after they- had both left the

By Andrew Grice
P olitical Editor

school. A government source
said: "There is no corroboration
of the claim by Mrs Woodhead.
It is his word against hers."

The source added: “Wc are
not going to unpick divorce
settlements from 20 years ago.
.As Jar as we are concerned, the
matter is closed."

The reprieve for the contro-
versial schools inspector came
after the Department for Edu-
cation and Employment con-
sidered a dossier submitted by
Mrs Woodhead.

Although she has refused to
join teachers' leaders and 12
MPs who have called for Mr
Woodhead to resign, she has
said she is determined to “get
to the truth”. She has threat-
ened to sue her former husband
and accused llie Government of
sweeping the row under the
carpeL

Some ministers believe the
education establishment is
“ganging up” against Mr Wood-
head because of his trenchant
criticism of poor teacher*. The
chief inspector has enjoyed
strong backing from Tony Blair,
and yesterday David Blunkett,

the Secretary of Stale for Ed-
ucation. who has not always
seen eye to eye with Mr Wood-
head. gave him his full public
support.

Mr Blunkett told a Labour
Party press conference that
he had received no evidence
about Mr Woodhcad's private
life that would prevent the chief
inspector continuing to do his
job effectively. 'The issue for ed-
ucation in our country is rais-
ing standards and giving every
child an opportunity. It's nol
about someone's sex life back
in I97G.” said Mr Blunkett.
“Chris Woodhead has made.

and will continue in my view to
make, a very Important contri-
bution :o raising those stan-
dards as chief inspector."

The secretary of state said
recent evidence had shown an
enormous improvement in
teaching quality and standards
in failing schools. “It’s a testa-
ment to Ofsted [the Office for
Standards in Education! work-
ing with the Government on
raising standards." he said.

The chief inspector also won
the support of the Opposition
yesterday. Theresa May. the
Conservative education spokes
woman, said Mr Woodhead had

provided "rigorous inspection
under strong leadership". She
accused those who had never ac-
cepted the importance of a tough
inspection regime of using the
row over his private life to try to
“emasculate Ofsted".

Mr Woodhead has previous-
ly apologised for remarks to
trainee teachers earlier this

year, disclosed in The Inde-
pendent that relationships be-
tween teachers and pupils
could be “educative and expe-
riential”. Such relationships
with pupils aged 1 6 or 1 7 would
be illegal under new laws being
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Last Chance
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that has been denied
every top press and
television
interviewer for the
past four months:
the chance to put
questions to Peter
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top? How has he
been spending his
time since he
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he take out the home
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precipitated his fell?
Does he think public
life now makes
private life
impossible? What
are his favourite
novel, film and
painting? Since
losing his cabinet
job, has he lost
friends?

In answering
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readers. Mr
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made before his
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answers will be
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QE2 parties in style
for her 30th birthday

THE DOWAGER duchess of
transatlantic cruising, the QE3,
had a birthday party yes tenlay.
Although technically only 32 -
she was launched by her royal
namesake on Clydebank in 1967
- the 30th anniversary of her
maiden voyage to New York on
2 May 1969 was celebrated with
a grandeur that might attend the
Queen Mother’s centenary.

Brass bands played in the de-
partures hall at Southampton
docks. A harpist and hundreds
of blue, white and red hot air
balloons decorated the cham-
pagne reception where a slew
of media Michaels - Asp el,
Buerk and Brunson - mingled
with a smorgasbord of cheesy
celebrities such as former MP
■Rupert Alla son, broadcaster
Shaw Taylor, television news-
caster Carol Barnes and en-
tertainer Jimmy Savile.

As the world’s most famous
ocean-going liner prepared for
her 1,160th voyage to New "fork,
a cascade of 1,159 balloons - one
&x- each completed trip -was re-

by John Walsh

leased from the deck as the ship
sailed off. her stays creaking, her
foundation garments groaning.

The ship’s operator. Cunard.
used the occasion to announce
a £20m refit, starting in No-
vember £i2m will be spent on
replacing the faded upholstery
of the Queen’s grin, the sad pat-
terned plush carpets of the
grand lounge, the tragically
possd bedspreads of the a .800
porthole cabins. It is rather a
shock to walk on board and find
yourself in a Sixties museum, all
aubergine puree decor and
chrome pillars. But the new
owners, the American cruise
giant Carnival - which bought
Cunard last June for £300m - is
determined to drag the elderly
vessel into a zippy new future.

■frue, one of the three com-
panies tendering for the £20 m
makeover is the Hamburg-
based firm of Blohm&\bss, who
presided over the disastrous
1994 refit which left the liner

putting out to sea with unfitted
carpets, trailing cables and
“dark brown water" seeping
from taps and lavatories. But
five years on. Carnival attaches
no blame to Blohm & Voss.

At lunch time yesterday,
seven of the QE2‘$ nine cap-
tains since 1969 were brought
on stage and a birthday cake,
model of the ship ceremoni-
ously cut One of the two griz-
zled and storm-bearded
masters of the vessel today.

Captain Ron Warwick, is the
sod of the original captain.
Commodore William Warwick,
who died in February aged 86.

The ship's luxuiy-drenched
passengers shift 20 tons of straw
berries, 73.000 bottles of cham-
pagne, 14 tons of smoked salmon
every year and one-lhird of the
world’s annual consumption of
black caviar. But it has proved a
useful vessel as well as a sybarit
ic one. In 1982 as the Falkland-s
war broke out. it was requisi-
tioned by the Navy and ferried
3500 troops to south Georgia.

The QE2's owners look for-
ward to an exciting new future
for the liner as “an experience"
rather than “a cruise" They are
keen to attract a younger clien-
tele - the average age on a
Nineties cruise is 58. And they
must come to terms with one
ambiguous statistic - as Carol
Thatcher, daughter of Lhe for-
mer prime minister, pointed
out the most significant impulse
towards the modem transat-
lantic cruise is the film Titanic. . .

Prescott to learn
of airbag danger

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AN INQUEST jury returned a
verdict of accidental death yes-
terday after hearing how a 47-
year-old woman was allegedly
killed by her car’s airbag.

The coroner, Christopher
Sumner, told the hearing in St
Helens town hall, Merseyside,
that he would report the inquest
and its findings to John
Prescott, Secretary of -State
for the Environment. Transport
and the Regions.

Jennifer Reicbardt, a legal
executive aged 47. died after
her Rover 400 was in collision
with an Opel Ascona near St He-
lens in January last year. The
jury heard that the airbag safe-
ty device was triggered in the
head-on crash, which, com-
bined with the victim’s dose
proximity to the steering wheel

caused a massive fracturing of
herskulL The fatal head injury
is believed to have been caused
when Ms Reichardf s head was
thrown back by the airbag into
the headrest

A spokesman for the Royal
Society for the Prevention of
Accidents said yesterday that
airbags did save lives, but
called for “intelligent airbags”
which take into account a per-
son’s height weight and even
bone density. “The technology
exists to do this and the indus-
try has known for some time
that airbags could be better de-
signed. These could deploy in
accordance with a person’s
build. There could also be a cut-
off device so an airbag would
not work if a driver’s seat were
too dose to the steering wheeL"

In brief

Serial rapist jailed for life

A MAN who raped seven women in their beds was jailed
for life yesterday by a judge at Nottingham Crown Court.
Keith Samuels, 35, of Northampton, admitted seven rapes
in four different towns and pleaded guilty to 87 other of-
fences induding armed robbery, burglary and fraud.

Lockerbie suspects in court

TWO LIBYANS suspected of the Lockerbie plane bombing
that killed 270 people were committed for trial yesterday.
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and ai-Amin Khalifa Fhimah
made no plea or declaration when they appeared in pri-
vate before a Scottish sheriff at Camp Zeist in the Nether-
lands. They were remanded in custody.

Donegal may still sparkle yet

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Man escapes jaws of crusher

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hoisted in a skip into the back of a rubbish lorry in Bristol
yesterday. His knee was caught in the lorry's crushing
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THE FLYING SCOTSMAN is to
Steam back into business after
a three-year, film restoration
programme, it was announced
yesterday.

The 160-ton locomotive will
leave London King’s Cross on
4 July on a £350^per- ticket trip
to York - the start of regular;
main line charter services.

Built in 1923, the Flying
Scotsman ran on the London
and North Eastern Railway,
and then on British Rail, for 40
years. Its restoration was un-
dertaken by the pharmaceuti-
cal entrepreneur, Tbny
Marchington, who bought the
loco for £1.5m in 1996.

It ran about two million
miles in service before being
withdrawn in 1963 and being
taken over by a succession of
private owners r unnin g char-
ter services, including the pop
impresario Pete Waterman,

racism battle

The now-legendary Flying Scotsman in 1929, sis years after it was built

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to form part of the National
Curriculum.

The Home Office minister
Mike O'Brien said the work
would involve the parents of
teenagers who show racist ten-
dencies. Schools will also be en-
couraged to carry out "early
intervention" initiatives to try
to limit racist indoctrination at
home. Racists will also be
forced to pay reparations to the
victims of their attacks.

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Home Affairs Correspondent

whites had been starkly ins-
tated by the covert police film
of the five men suspected of
wiling the black teenager
Stephen Lawrence and the ac-
count of their actions in Sir
William Macpberson of Clun/s
report into the murder:

He said: ‘'For many white
people the report made deeply
shocking reading. Perhaps
some people needed to be
shocked to get a passing idea
of what it’s like to be black or
Asian in Britain.”

Mr O’Brien, who pointed out
that not an racists were white,
and that young people as a
whole were increasingly anti-
racist said the the programme
could only succeed with the
support of institutions. “It’s
going to be a long-term strug-
gle. Fbr the impact on white
youth, it is important that we
have more people from ethnic
minorities in positions of au-
thority our society."

But the Home Office has
been encouraged by the re-
sults of a series of projects

afaiwi at rhatlftngmg racism. In
Bermondsey; south London,
the National Youth Agency has
backed a scheme which in-
volves directly confronting
known racist gangs and ques-

tioning them about their atti -
tudes. Hie project, which for
duded taking young people
of their predominantly white
neighbourhood to mix with
those from more ethnically di-
verse areas, led to a reduction
in racist attacks in the area.

Meanwhile the father of

grily yesterday to the, news
that Gary Dobson, one of the
five men suspected of killing his'
son, will take part in a radio
phone-in programme today.
Neville Lawrence said he was
upset that Talk Radio was pro-
ceeding with the programme
despite the family’s opposition
to the decision by ITV to broad-
cast interviews with the five,
suspects on last Thursday's
Tonight programme.

“In the same way that we
wanted nothing to do with the
Tonight programme we want
nothing to (to with this ... Ithint
[Talk Radiol have been com-
pletely insensitive and uncon-
cerned about our feelings and
our views.”

A spokeswoman for Talk
Radio said: “We decided it was
a matter that was in the public
interest and would give our lis-
teners the first chance to speak
to somebody involved in the
case." She said Mr Dobson had
approached the station with the.
idea and he was not being paid.

Jack Straw yesterday: ‘Setting targets - not quotas’

Hire more blacks,
Straw tells police

jack STRAW challenged po-
lice yesterday to recruit more
than 8,000 black and Asian of-
ficers in the next decade. The
Home Secretary set a target for
each force in England and
Wales and said he hoped every
force would reflect the racial
make-up of the area it served.

The Metropolitan Police has
been told it should have 5,662 of-
ficers from ethnic minorities,
the highest target set In the
Wfest Midlands, the figure is 862,
with 356 in Greater Manches-
ter and 345 in West Yorkshire.

But Mr Straw told a confer-
ence in Southampton that even
forces in areas with less than
1 per cent ethnic minority pop-
ulation would be expected to
have at least l percent of thqir
officers from ethnic minorities.

Only four forces were de-
clared “on target" for their eth-
nic minority recruitment -
Gwent Norfolk, Northampton-
shire and Suffolk. Natio nally ;
only about 2 per cent of police
officers come from ethnic mi-
norities although the minorities
are 7 per cent of the population.

Home Office research pub-
lished to coincide with the
conference, on recruitment,
retention and progression of
Black and Asian police offi-
cers, found “institutional
racism" was blighting the

by Ian Burrell

careers of ethnic minority offi-
cers. Black and Asian officers
were leaving the force at dou-
ble the rate of whites. TVo or
three times as many black anri
Asian officers were dismissed
as whites. Asian officers took
five months longer; on average,
to be made sergeants, black
officers 18 months longer.
Black officers take 23 months
longer to become inspectors,

■ Asian officers 16 months.

There are 2,191 black and
Asian constables out of 97,671
officers at that rank and only six
black and Asian superinten-
dents among 1^237.

Mr Straw said he was setting
targets and not quotas and
there was no question of e thni c
minority officers being pro-
moted on anything but merit

The Commissioner of the
Metropolitan Police, .Sir Paul
Condon, said he warmly
embraced the targets set for
the Met and said it was “catch-
up time" for the whole of the
police service. The Met has
been told to increase the num-
ber of ethnic minority officers
from 865, which is 3.3 per cent
of the force, to 5,662 to bring it
in line with the 25 per cent eth-
nic minority population of the
area it serves.

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risk by forcing them to see vi-
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wishes, according lo a study.

The findings showed that
more than half of children from
violent relationships did not
want to continue seeing their fa-
thers after their parents had
separated, but three-quarters of
them were forced to do so by
the courts. Experts believe that
continued contact with a violent
father can harm already vul-
nerable children physically and
emotionally.

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disorders, nightmares and ex-
treme anxiety. If contact is
forced on the child, they might
not only be physically at risk
from their father but also risk
witnessing continuing domes-
tic abuse to the mother,’' said
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lecturer in social policy at the
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don, who is a specialist on con-
tact issues with violent families.

“We are not looking at the
rights of the father but the
rights of the child. A child can
only benefit from seeing his
father if the contact is going to
be non-abusive."

In the biggest study on con-
tact and domestic violence in

By Cherry Norton
Social Affairs Correspondent

the UK - involving 13U parents
and 2t)0 children - three-
quarters of the abused par-
ents said that their partner's vi-
olence towards them was not
considered a convincing
enough reason for refusing
contact with the childrea
On contact visits to the fa-
ther, one into children had been
sexually abused two in 10 were
physically assaulted and six in
10 were emotionally harmed.

Every year more than
150.000 children are caught up
in the trauma of their parents'
divorce or separation. Up to one
third of these marriages fails be-
cause the man is violent to-
wards his partner. When
parents cannot agree contact
arrangements for the children
the case is referred to a family
court where the judge decides
what is in the best interest of the
child. It is rare for the courts to
deny a parent any contact
“The courts work on the
basis that parental separation
is a deprivation for the child,"
says Mr Justice Walt a mem-
ber of the Lord Chancellor’s ad-
visory board on family law.
speaking on Dispatches . to be
televised tonight “It involves
the loss of one of the parents
and therefore the child should.

wherever possible, be com-
pensated for that loss by cun-
fact with the absent parent and
accordingly U>e courts usually
award contact in the vast ma-
jority of cases, unless there
are cogent reasons against it"
Sarah Sayer, of Action for
Mothers in Contact Action
(Arnica), an organisation that
advises parents on contact
problems and which conducted
the study, said: “The findings
show that the British courts'
lack of concern for parents'
fears about domestic violence
has dire consequences."

The stucly also showed that
one in three children was ne-
glected by his or her father on
contact visits and one in four
was looked after by a father who
was dr unk. An example is Lau-
ren. whose parents split up
when she was aged five. Her fa-
ther was awarded weekly visits,
but after four years she per-
suaded the welfare officer to
stop the contact “It was like four
years of torture. He had no food
in the bouse, ever He paid me
no attention atalL He was either
asleep in bed or he was watch-
ing TV on the couch. And he
used to go to the pub all the time,
so I never saw him,” she said
Dispatches is on Channel 4
at 9.30pm.

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Failing colleges may be taken over

FAILING COLLEGES could be
dosed down and reopened with
new management under plans
being considered by ministers
in response to a damning report
into one of Britain's largest
colleges.

Baroness Blackstone. an Ed-
ucation minister said she was
considering the tough powers

By ben Russell
Education Correspondent

after the National Audit Office
heavily criticised Halton Col-
lege in Cheshire. The college
had to repay £6.4m in govern-
ment fees after it was found to
have overcharged for courses.
The inquiry criticised trips

abroad by the principal Martin
Jenkins, and bis deputy; Jenny
Dolphin. Auditors found the
college had claimed for funding
for 60-bour courses that lasted
one hour In other cases, the col-
lege claimed funding for Scot-
tish students who are not
eligible for grants in England.

Internal audits were unsat-

isfactory in one in five colleges.
Lady Blackstone said: “These
disturbing reports show why it
is essential that we have a rig-
orous process of inspection in
further education, better ac-
countabOity and a dear policy to
tackle failure. We are deter-
mined that such abuses will be
driven out of the system, with

those who perpetrate them.”

The Halton governors ac-
cepted responsibility for the
problems yesterday but said:
“It remains a matter of very
real concern to the board that
both independent internal and
external audits over a number
of years failed to raise any
questions of irregularities."

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Son ^is«<r medicine, where a
patient's genetic blueprint is
used to predict and treat ill-
nesses with tailor-made drugs.

The scheme, likely to revo-
lutionise medicine, is the fruit
of an unprecedented alliance
between the biggest multi-
national drug companies and
the world’s leading centres of
academic excellence

The combined resources of
a consortium of 10 pharma-
ceutical firms and five research
insti t utes will be used to find the
genetic “signposts” that will
enable doctors to diagnose a pa-
tient's inherited predispositions
to diseases.

The consortium has vowed to
publish details of the signposts
as and when they are found, to
prevent smaller companies
from patenting the same dis-
coveries and restricting re-
search. GenseL one company in

BY STEVE CONNOR
Science Editor

Paris, said it has already dis-
covered two genetic traits that
predispose people to prostate
cancer and is offering them for
sale at £30m.

It is envisaged that the work
win be the first practical spin-
off of the multi-MSon-pound ef-
fort to unravel man’s entire
genetic blueprint - the human
genome project - which is ex-
pected to publish its first draft
“map" next year.

In the first two years of the
research effort, £2 8m will be
spent on identifying 300.000 ge-
netic signposts in human DNA,
roughly half of which will be
mapped precisely, to diagnose
and understand the causes of
major illnesses, ranging from
asthma and diabetes to cancer
and heart disease.

The Wellcome Triist Brit-
ain's biggest medical research

charity, is spearheading the ini-
tiative in conjunction with four
of America's most prestigious
genetics centres - the White-
head Institute for Biomedical
Research in Cambridge, Mass-
achusetts, Washington Univer-
sity School of Medicine in St
Louis, Stanford Human
Genome Center in California
and Cold Spring Harbor Labo-
ratory in New \brk.

The group of 10 drug com-
panies includes Britain’s Glaxo
Wellcome, SmithKline Beech-
am and AstraZeneca, as weQ as
Bayer Hoechst, Hoffmann-La
Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
Novartis, Pfizer and Searie.

The aim of the project is to
identify the smallest genetic
variations that distinguish one
person from another; known
te chnically as angle nuceleo-
tide polymorphisms (SNPs).
There is one SNP in every
1,000 letters in the 3 billion-
letter genetic code of humans.

resul ting in more than one mil-
lion SNPs that typically distin-
guish one individual from
another

Scientists believe SNPs are
the signposts of disease and de-
termine why some people de-
velop serious illnesses while
others do not, despite being ex-
posed to the same environ-
mental risk factors.

Michael Morgan, of the Wel-
come Trust, said the SNP map
would also identify which drugs
would work well with mini-
mum side-effects. “The expec-
tation is that most of the
common diseases have a major
genetic basis. The question is
how do you determine the dif-
ference," he said.

Arthur Holden, the head of
SNP Consortium Ltd, said all
the information gathered to
make the SNP map will be pub-
lished openly and not patented.

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BY PAUL MCCANN
Media Editor

AS THE millennium approach-
es, lists of everything are ap-
pearing. Yesterday, pop singers
had their turn with the publi-
cation of a list of the top 100
singers of “all time”. John
Lennon topped the list, fol-
lowed by &vis Presley and
Aretha Franklin.

The music magazine Mojo
published the list after a poll of
2,000 of its readers. True to the
baby-boomer profile of the mag-
azine's readership, the list is
dominated by singers from the
Sixties. The only singers from
the Nineties are Tori Amos,
75th, Fortishead's Beth Gib-
bons at 77th, Liam Gallaghec
85th, and Kurt Cobain, 98th.

Croahy-voiced white singers
such as Bob Dylan (5) and Tbm
Waits (25) came ahead of the
more mellifluous Nat Eng Code
(52) and A1 Green (88). “The
readers chose a more white se-
lection of singers than did the
singers themselves when we
had a poll of 175 of them last
year,” said the editor, Matt
Snow. “Blues and soul singers
generally did better and Aretha
Franklin came out on top ”

But Snow rebuffed (he sug-
gestion that it was The Beatles’
popularity rather than his

John Lennon: ‘More than
just a songwriter*

singing which put Lennon at the
top ofibe list “Actually; I think
the readers made a good judge-
ment call. He was more than
just a songwriter... Some of
Lennon’s more mundane solo
numbers were lifted by the pas-
sionate nature of bis arigmg.”

But inevitably when you pro-
duce a top 100, people disagree
with the pecking order. “John
Lennon you can blame on Nod
Gallagher;” said Steve Suther-
land, the editor of a rival nauac
magazine. NME. “Before Gal-
lagher no one was that bothered
about The Beatles anymore.”

He said lists of artists could
be fun, but are ultimately
flawed: “Ybu cannot compare
Bing Crosby to Lennon...
Music is just too subjective.”

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1 John Lennon

2 Elvis Presley

3 Aretha Franklin
A Frank Sinatra

5 Bob Dylan

6 Roy Orbison

7 Paul McCartney

8 Otis Redding

9 Robert Plant

10 Ray Charles

1 1 Van Morrison

12 Marvin Gaye

1 3 David Bowie
1A Dusty
Springfield

15 Sandy Denny

16 Mick Jagger

17 Sam Cooke

18 Brian Wilson

19 Joni Mitchell

20 Captain
Beefheart

21 Eric Button

22 Freddie Mercury

23 Howlin' Wolf

24 Ella Fitzgerald

25 Tom Waits

26 Roger Daltrey

27 Nina Simone

28 John Fogerty

29 Steve Marriott
20 Jim Morrison

31 Richard Manuel

32 Morrissey

33 Michael Stipe

3A Billie Holliday

35 Smokey
Robinson

36 Jeff Buckley

37 Ray Davies .

38 James Taylor

39 Nell Young

40 Tina Buckley

41 Buddy Hoily

42 Stevie Wonder
A3 Emmylou Harris
AA little Richard
AS Johnny Cash
A6 kd Lang

A7 Willie Nelson
A8 Kate Bush
A9 Peter Green

50 Thom Yorke

51 Barbra
Streisand

52 Nat King Cole

53 Bessie Smith
5A Lowell George

55 Patsy Cline

56 Rod Stewart

57 Jerry Lee Lewis

58 Joe Cocker

59 Lou Reed

60 Karen
Carpenter

61 PauJ Rodgers

62 Scott Walker

63 Eivis Costello
6A Bonnie Raitt
65 Art Garfunkel

66 Bobby Darin

67 Bob Marley

68 John Martyn

69 Harry Nilsson. -

70 Charlie Rich
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73 Janis Joplin

74 Robert Wyatt

75 Tori Amos

76 Nick Drake

77 Beth Gibbons

78 Joan Baez

79 lan Curtis : .

80 Donald Fagen

81 Patti Smith

82 Paul Buchanan

83 Prince

8A Roger Chapman

85 Liam Ga liagtier

86 Tracey Thom

87 Paul Weller

88 A1 Green

89 Leri Stubbs

90 Robert Joh n son

91 Ha nk Williams

92 Aaron Neville

93 Dionne Warwick
9A Curtis Mayfield

95 June Tabor

96 Big Joe Turner

97 Diana Ross

98 Kurt Cobain

99 Solomon Burke

100 Tina Timer

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Naked at the dispatch box - and it wasn’t a dream

MOST OF us have had that night-
mare in which you find yourself
about to goon stage and realise that
you don't havea due whatyour lines
are. But most of US are lucky enough
to wake up to the flooding relief that

it was all just a ghastly dream.

Not poor Mr Prescott who yes-
terday had the land of experience
that causes you to wake up next
morning with a scalding jolt of an-
guish as you remember that it
really did happen, and, wbafs more,
that many painful mornings lie
ahead before the sting of humilia-
tion will have entirely faded.

The prospect of the Deputy
Prime Minister answering ques-

tions on the Kosovo crisis would
have aroused some anticipation in
any case -the last time he had to
make a statement on this matter.
President Milosevic’s name proved
to be an insurmountable barri-
cade. withstanding repeated brave
assaults from the combined forces
of Mr Prescott's lips, tongue and
soft palate. This had apparently left
him so skittish about a repeat en-
gagement that Department of
Transport civil servants had been
working late into the night to find
plausihle (and pronounceable) syn-
onyms for the Beast of Belgrade.
More serious was the question of
how Nato policy would emerge

from the tumble-dryer of Mr
Prescott's language processor. Mr
Blair has been precisely vague
about such issues as ground inter-
vention and a post-war settlement
taking advantage of light cloud
cover to shelter these vulnerable
positions from the laser-guided
questions of sceptics. The best Mr
Prescott ever achieves is a vague
precision - and there was some
question as to whether the combi-
nation of these two approaches
would lead to inadvertent candour
or a kind of bafflement meltdown.

In the event, it wasn't the war
that tripped him up. If anyone was
discredited by the exchanges on

the Sketch

THOMAS

SUTCLIFFE

Kosovo it was Labour back-
benchers, in a mood of unthinking
jingoism as Tbries put several per-
tinent questions about the war.

■’Disgraceful!'’ shouted Peter Man-
delson, leading a raucous claque of
MPs who appeared to think that any
inquiry, however sensible, consti-
tuted an act of treason. But apart
from one incident when he de-
ployed the human shield of “our sol-
diers in the field", Mr Prescott
handled himself perfectly welL

He survived a rough patch over
class sizes too, after he had fla-
grantly substituted his own easy
question for Alan Beith’s more
awkward one. As Tory MPs bar-
racked him for this evasion, he
grinned cheekily: -That’s the an-
swer he’s going to get anyway."

As in any good disaster movie, the

air of insouciance was the cue for
catastrophe. The House was still
chuckling affectionately as Michael
Spicer stood up to unroll a lengthy
question, which he finally revealed
was about "Withholding T&r". There
was a pause and something about
it - an infinitesimal beat or two extra
before Mr Prescott rose, or the look
of scrabbling urgency in his eyes -
carried the scent ofblood to the Tbry
benches. He couldn’t remember
what it was. Had he had two seconds
more he would probably have put a
face to the name, but he didn't and
the shutters of his memory came
slamming down. I doubt if Mr
Prescott could have remembered

his wife's name at this point, stu-
pefied as he was by his situation -
naked at the dispatch box with only
a string vest to protect his modesty.
He stumbled through his reply,
evety word hamm ering home his
plight, every word increasing the
glee of his tormentors opposite.

So flustered was he that a few
minutes later he was apologising for
something he hadn't even done,
convinced by the continuing hubbub
of celebration from the Tbry bench-
es that he had replied tc the wrong
question on the order paper He
hadn't, but it hardly mattered any-
more. Nothing was going to rescue
him from this bad dream.

Cook challenged
on Nato bombing

ROBIN COOK dashed with Tbry
and Labour members of the
Foreign Affairs Select Com-
mittee yesterday after they
questioned the legality of Nato
strikes on Serbia.

Amid signs of Tbry misgiv-
ings about support for the Gov-
ernment over the attacks, the
Labour MP Diane Abbott dear-
ly irritated Mr Cook by claim-
ing that the attacks were on
a “slender" justification of
preventing a humanitarian
catastrophe.

The left-winger defended Sir
John Stanly, a Tory member of
the committee and former de-
fence minister, after he was in-
volved in angry exchanges with
Mr Cook for questioning the
conduct of the Nato offensive.

In some of the sharpest
dashes with MPs since the
conflict began, Mr Cook turned
on Sir John for daiming Nato
had been warned that Presi-
dent Slobodan Milosevic would
respond to the attacks by in-
creasing ethnic cleansing in
Kosovo and had failed to realise

the House

Hunting ploy

A SURVEY showed most
Labour backbenchers
want fox-hunting banned.
But Tbny Blair is unlikely
to move before removal
of hereditary peers, for
fears the “hunting and
shooting" lobby would
block any attempted ban.

Benefit ruling

MPs RECEIVING free
research aid should list it
in the Register of
Members’ Interests, the
parliamentary watchdog
ruled. Edward Leigh,

Tory member for
Gainsborough, should
have registered help from
the deputy director of the
Christian Institute,
Elizab eth F flkin said.

Questions

and

ANSWERS

Drinking time

PEOPLE WILL be able to
celebrate the millennium
with all-night drinking,
the Home Office said. On
every New Year’s Eve
from 1999 onwards, pubs
and clubs will be allowed
to open for 36 hours -
without a break.

Bomb costs

BRITISH AIRCRAFT

dropped 14 bombs on
Yugoslavia last month at
a cost of £520,000, George
Robertson, Secretary of
State for Defence, said.
He added that British
aircraft flew a total of 50
sorties during the same
period up to 0600
on 1 April at a cost of
£360,000 excluding
munitions.

Today’s agenda

Commons
Treasury questions;

Youth Justice and
Criminal Evidence Bill,
second reading; Short
debate on regulation of
mortgage brokers
Lords

Debate on Stephen
Lawrenee inquiry;

Debate on refurbishment
of homes

BALKAN WAR

By Colin Brown
and Sarah Schaefer

the consequences of its actions.

Mr Cook said he would “vig-
orously rebut" the suggestion
that the Nato bombing had
caused the “ethnic cleansing"
of Albanians from Kosovo.

“I personally deprecate
those who play Milosevic's
game of suggesting it is Nato
that is to blame for the ethnic
cleansing because it comes
close to accepting he is justified
in responding to the Nato
bombing by the barbarity with
which he has behaved.

“Nobody was saying in 1940
we should stop bombing Hitler
because he is killing the. Jews.
Nobody was making that link-
age. It was because of his pol-
itics and his fascism that he was
carrying out the genocide. It is
exactly the same with Milose-
vic and the Kosovars." said Mr
Cook.

Ms Abbott protested to the
Foreign Secretary: “It is not a

substitute for a reasoned de-
fence to accuse people of being
an apologist for Milosevic. That
is not a serious defence for what
you have been doing"

Later. John Prescott the
Deputy Prime Minister, heard
further Tbry misgivings over
the “shifting and the confused
military and political objec-
tives" of the Nato action.

Peter Lilley, deputy Tory
leader, warned British troops
could be “overstretched" be-
cause of the cuts outlined in the
Strategic Defence Review.

Peter Luff Tory MP for Mid
Worcestershire, asked: “Why
yesterday did the Prime Minis -
tersqy to the House that Serbian
brutality in Kosovo was planned
well in advance, when three
weeks ago Robin Cod: and Clare
Short [Secretary of State for In-
ternational Development] were
both saying that no one could
have anticipated the Serbian
reaction to the bombing cam-
paign and, incredibly that to
put humanitarian assistance in
place in advance would have

Prescott and
Blair clash
over PR polls

LOCAL ELECTIONS

By Andrew Grice
Political Editor

JOHN PRESCOTT Deputy
Prime Minister, is resisting
pressure from Tony Blair to
combat sleaze by Labour-run
councils by bringing in propor-
tional representation for local-
authority elections.

Mr Blair believes PR could
boost his campaign to “clean
up" town halls by ending “one-
party states" where Labour
councillors have been accused
of corruption and waste.

But Mr Prescott thinks PR
would create an unstoppable
momentum for it to be brought
in for general elections. The
split may force Mr Blair to
delay his plan until after the
general election. Instead, they
will seek to “modernise” local
government by urging councils
to allow voters to elect mayors.

Downing Street aides be-
lieve PR would also encourage
a higher turn-out Polling in
most areas outside London is
on 6 May. Only (me person in
five might vote in some places.

Launching Labour's cam-
paign yesterday, ministers said
they would not continue to tol-
erate such low turn-outs.

Prescott: Fears a drive for
PR in general elections

Hilary Armstrong, Minister
for Local Government said:
“No responsible government
can live with a situation where
billions of pounds of taxpayers'
money i& banded out by coun-
cils with such limited man-
dates." But she sided with Mr
Prescott over the introduction
of PR, saying she did not believe
it was the “secret answer" to
problems in town halls.

Ministers fear sleaze claims
against some Labour authori-
ties will harm its prospects
next month. The Tories are
making sleaze a central plank
in their campaign.

MPs attack BBC’s
political coverage

BSPS FROM all sides accused
BBC chiefs of “dumbing down"
its political coverage yesterday,
urging them to reverse their
decision to reduce parliamen-
tary reports on radio.

They said the BBC had lost
3 million listeners since it
moved Yesterday m Parlia-
ment from the mainstream of
the Today programme on FM
to Radio 4 long wave last year.

Opening a short debate on
the issue, Denis MacShane.
the Labour MP for Rother-
ham, said not a single new
listener had been won for the
Ibday programme since the
change.

“I am asking the BBC today
to reverse last year’s disastrous
decision. It’s no use shunting us
off to an obscure corner of the
networks," he said.

David Davis, who chairs the

MEDIA

BY SARAH SCHAEFER
Political Reporter

Public Accounts Select Com-
mittee and is Tory MP for Hal-
temprice and Howden, warned
of the dangers of ‘‘gfaettoisatjQif
of parliamentary coverage.

Chris Smith, Secretary of
State for Culture, is expected to
address the matter at his an-
nual meeting with the BBC’s
Board of Governors next
month.

During his speech, MrMac-
Sbane quoted a letter from the
BBC chairman. Sir Christo-
pher Bland, in which be ac-
knowledged the loss of listeners
for the Week in Westminster
and Yesterday in Parliament
had been much greater than ex-
pected and left an “unaccept-
able democratic deficit".

made us complirit in Milosevic's
campaign?"

But Mr Prescott standing in
during question time for Ttony
Blair who was at the European
Union summit in Brussels, said
□o one could have envisaged
the horrific actions seen Koso-
vo: “I don’t think there's any
doubt the general public will
certainly ... accept that these
events were going on. The scale
of them no one envisaged."

His claims were supported by
Clive Soley, chairman of the Par-
liamentary Labour Party, who
warned Tbries not to end the bi-
partisan consensus on Kosovo.

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fflgarms race in South Asia has
a deepened after Pakistan tested
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sonalise Agfa N-2, on Sunday. Immedi-
pahenfs ately after the Indians an-
used to bounced their test Pakistan

by Jason burke
in Islamabad

made dear it would respond
rapidly. The Ghauri. named
after a medieval Muslim war-
rior king, was fired from a test
site near the northern diy of
Jhelum and took 1 2 minutes to
travel 730 miles to land on the
shores of the Arabian Sea The
Pakistani authorities said the
flight was “completely suc-
cessful” but disclosed few facts

about it A Foreign Ministry
spokesman said the missile
can carry a 1,000kg payload up
to 1,300 miles and stressed that
it could "he tipped with any type
of warhead".

Defence sources say the
new missile is also the first in
Pakistan to be fitted with state
of the art technology, allowing
it to be guided accurately 00
its target

The spokesman said the
test demonstrated Pakistan’s

‘determination to defend our
geographic boundaries and
strengthen national security”.
He denied that Pakistan want-
ed a “nuclear and missile race
in South Asia". There was no
immediate response to the test
from the Indian government
Last summer, both coun-
tries conducted a series of nu-
clear tests in spite of massive
international opposition. The
resulting economic sanctions hit
hard although India, with its

h uge economy and greater for-
eign currency reserves, has
weathered their effect more
successfully. Although this
week’s tests are a sefoackforin-
temational efforts to restrict the
two nations' arms development
programmes, diplomats say the
situation on the subcontinent
has improved sharply in the last
12 months.

"If anything the two tests
have lowered the tension be-
tween the two countries. There

is nothing like the belligerence
and angst we saw last year;”
said one Pakistan diplomat in
the West

Both nations appear to have

followed the procedures laid out

in the Lahore Declaration -
signed by both countries’ Prime
Ministers in February -and in-
formed each other of their test

plans well in advance. The lead-
ers of the two countries have
also recently hinted that they
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tempts to stabilise the region^

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THE BITTER public battle be-
tween Malaysia's ageing polit-
ical leader and his brilliant
protege readied its climax yes-
terday with the former deputy
prime minister Anwar Ibrahim
sentenced to six years in prison
on four corruption charges.

With seats for the verdict at
a premium, the world’s press
began queuing outside the
High Court at 5.30am. For the
lucky ones, it was the smiling,
resolute countenance of Anwar
when confronted with the six-
year sentence that left the
biggest impression.

Anwar; once regarded as the
natural heir to the Prime Min-

By Sarah Strickland
in Kuala Lumpur

ister. Dr Mahathir Mohamad,
expected to be found guilty of
using his position to cover up
allegations of sodomy and adul-
tery. “As per instructions" he
said with a wry smile when the
verdict duly came.

“I had no hope whatsoever
that I would be tried fairly,” he
told the court in an impas-
sioned speech, made despite
Judge Augustine Paul's fre-
quent, lame attempts to si-
lence him. “The charges are
part of apolitical conspiracy to
destroy me and ensure Dr

Mahathir ’s continued hold on
power at whatever cost I have
been dealt a judgment that
stinks to high Heaven.”

The trial that has gripped
Malaysians for six months has
steered a course through the
tragic to the plain farcical. The
sight of Anwar's bruised and
beaten face in his first court
appearance last year drew
international condemnation,
while the lengthy perusal of a
semen-stained mattress rival-
led the Lewinsky affair for un-
savoury details. When witness
after witness began to retract
or deny allegations of sodomy
and adultery the trial looked as

though it might fall apart
altogether

Sadly for Anwar. Judge
Augustine succeeded in reach-
ing a conclusion, one that may
kill the defendant's political ca-
reer. If an appeal fails, he will
be in prison for the next six
years and barred from entering
parliament for five years after
his release, by which time he
will be 62.

Yesterday a lean and fit-
looking Anwar showed just why
he has inspired such a ground
swell of public support, not
only with his fiery speeches, but
with a cheeky humour and ob-
vious devotion to his family.

When pleading with the judge
to let him speak, he quipped:
“You have 394 pages - I have
just five!" And he was quick to
correct the attorney-general
who appeared to refer to him as
the former prime minister: “I
was not the leaden I was the
deputy leader!" he called out to
stifled laughs from the bench-
es behind.

The ebullient defendant
looked momentarily shaken
when the sentence was passed
and jumped out of his seat to
check he had heard correctly.
“Was that six or sixteen?” he
asked incredulously.

He soon recovered his com-

posure, turning to smile at his
family and clench his fist

“I expected two to four
years, but Fm not that sur-
prised,” he said afterwards. “It
will be difficult I will miss my
family, but we have to continue
the fight”

His parents, his wife, Azizah
Ismafl, and their six children
surrounded him afterwards,
hugging and kissing him. Nurul
Izzah, his eldest daughter; was
unable to control her tears,
which flowed down her cheeks
until her father gently touched
her head and smiled at her in
mock reproval

As Azfaah left the courtroom,

she was greeted by cheers and
chants of “We want justice!”
from the crowds outside. Fight-
ing back tears, she said: “Our
family is very sad, but we have
no regrets.”

Gurbachan Singh, one of
Anwar’s lawyers, called the
sentence “manifestly exces-
sive". He added: “The maxi-
mum in this sort of case has
been two years. I am com-
pletely shocked.”

After the verdict crowds took
to the streets in defiance of a
ban on gatherings, and vented
their feelings at the ranks of po-
lice and water cannon awaiting
them. Soon streams of water

laced with pepper spray were
running in the gutters under
the midday sun. One of those
arrested was Han Chua, head
of an alliance of opposition par-
ties and rights groups. “I want
to know why police have beat-
en me up.” Mr Han, who ap-
peared to have bruises on his
head, told reporters.

The 73-year-oltj Dr Mahathir
is now left to wonder if his for-
mer friend may be more of a
threat inside prison than out.
Anwar suggested that tus in-
carceration was perhaps ‘just
a small sacrifice” on his part to
convince the people of the
urgent need for reform.

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mars debate on Brussels

THE WHISTLE-BLOWER whose
testimony helped to bring down
the European Commission
heaped more criticism on Brus-
sels yesterday, despite a deci-
sion to reinstate him on full pay.

The embarrassing dispute
blew up as Europe's leaders
gathered to debate ambitious
ideas for reform of the work-
ings of European Union, in re-
sponse to the resignation of all
20 commissioners.

Paul van Buitenen’s claims of
corruption and mismanagement
precipitated the crisis that pro-
pelled Jacques San ter from of-
fice as president of the
Commission, prompting the
clean-up. Yesterday, Mr Van
Buitenen criticised the author-

By Stephen Castle
in Brussels

ides for refusing to drop disci-
plinary charges against him and
for not allowing him to return to
his old job as an auditor

Instead, he will work in an
equivalent position from to-
morrow. Yesterday he said: “If
the Commission want to remain
credible, one of the steps they
should take is to give me back
my job as an auditor” He said his
testimony leaked in December
to the European Parliament
had been vindicated by the in-
dependent experts’ report that
toppled Mr San ter last month.

Tbenew attention given to the
case came as the beads of gov-

ernment held their first discus-
sions on reform with Romano
Procfi, the former Italian premier
now nominated as Mr Santer's
successor. Mr Prodi has made
clear he wants to construct a
mere heavyweight team, with no
time-servers.

There is a growing consensus
that the new Commission,
which faces ratification hearings
by the European Parliament in
September should serve for
five-and-a-balf years. Some
commissioners, including the
vice-president. Sir Leon Brittan,
hoped to continue until the end
of the year when they were due
to retire. But this would mean
Mr Prodi having to shuffle port-
folios after just three months.

Other ideas include changes
to the way portfolios are dis-
tributed. Areduction in the num-
ber of commissioners is seen as

a fongerterm objective because
it would require a treaty change.

New methods of auditing and
fin an c ial control and an em-
phasis on the fight against fraud
are expected to be agreed, but
the German presidency of the
EU hopes for a far-reaching
debate about how the Commis-
sion can adapt to its changing
role, away from initiating legis-
lation, to managing projects.

Mr Prodi’s argument that the
Council of Ministers, which
meets in private, should be ■—

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ty to be resisted. Paul ran Buitenen

‘Untouchables’ still India’s outcasts

DESPITE A substantially re-
formed economy and a
swelling middle class, India’s
permanent victims, the so-
called Untouchables, remain as
despised and ill-treated as evec
In a report published yes-
terday on the 108th anniversary
of the birth of Dr Bhimrao
Ramji Ambedkar, the Un-
touchables’ greatest champion.
Human Rights Watch iHRW).
a non-governmental organisa-
tion based in New York, said toe
abolition of “untouchability” in
1950 has done little to improve
conditions for the outcasts.
Their political mobilisation
since the early Nineties has pro-

by Peter popham
in Delhi

voked a fierce backlash from
caste Hindus, resulting in mas-
sacres and rapes.

HKW urged the World Bank
and other international lenders
to build anti-discrimination
measures into the projects they
fund, and recommended that
India's aid donors and trading
partners raise issues of caste
violence and channel funds
into the education and training
of the victims of oppression.

"Dalits", the favoured term
for Untouchables which HRW
renders as “Broken People", are

part of the scenery, even in the
heart of the modem Indian dty.
As always throughout history
they do the dirty work sweeps
ing the streets, cleaning lava-
tories, carting away rubbish.

The caste system, which
Human Right Watch calls “the
world's longest surviving social
hierarchy", still demands the
abasement of its humblest
members - or rather non-
members, for the essence of un-
touchability is that the “ritual
poDution" of the Dalits puts
them beyond the pale of Hindu
society. The Untouchables have
separate villages and wells.
They are barred from temples

and cannot share food or crock-
ery with caste Hindus without
“polluting” them.

These ideas retain a fierce
grip on Hindu sensibilities be-
cause, as the report exp lains
caste remains “a defining fea-
ture of Hinduism”. More than
160 million Dalits continue to be
oppressed. When this is chal-
lenged, toe consequences can be

dire. In Tamil Nadu in 1997 a
Dalit was elected to the presi-
dency of a village council A
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Two worlds collide in a wasteland racked by war

Frontline

SOUTHERN SUDAN

SOMETIMES IN a war zone,
the most obvious frontline is
not the military line. It is the
line between wealth and depri-
vation, malnutrition and health
- the line between two opposite
poles that have become a sur-
real sort of normality.

Much of southern Sudan is
a wasteland. There is no work-
ing economy, no public trans-
port, almost no schools or
hospitals. Last year, a devas-
tating famine killed tens of
thousands of people. Hunger
on a less lethal scale is ever-
present In most areas, there
is no electricity: drinking water
is in short supply. With a low-
level war that has continued for
years, ordinary civilian life
scarcely exists. Poverty is total

And then, like a UFO from
a distant planet, into this uni-
verse arrives a strange mani-
festation of otherness. Out of
the sky can be heard the dis-
tant drone of a plane. Villagers
gather to meet the metal ma-
chine, or just to watch.

Down the steps come the
representatives of the Other
World. They wear floppy hats
and summer dresses, aimost-
crisp white T-shirts and jeans
or baggy fatigues. They are
mostly Europeans, phis a few
locals whose education has al-
lowed them to somersault
seemingly insurmountable
barriers.

There are hugs and hellos
from the little band of arrivals
-aid workers, human rights re-

searchers, doctors, nurses, the
odd reporter.

The plane's cargo is un-
loaded; flour, rice, tea, medical
supplies. Some of those who
greeted the arrivals take their
seats in the departing plane, to
return to the world of restau-
rants, apartments and clean
water, others take their pas-
sengers or cargo into four-
wheel-drive vehicles and melt
into the bush.

This scene repeats itself day
after day month after month, all
over southern Sudan. At the
otherwise unremarkable little
town ofLokichokio in northern
Kenya, a huge airport has
grown up - the busiest in the re-
gion, apart from the interna-
tional hub in Nairobi But there
are no scheduled passenger
flights, just Red Cross, the Unit-
ed Nations, the World fbod
Programme... all the aircraft
are carrying aid; the majority of
it goes to Sudan,

Taking trips on these planes
is comfortable, in a strange
kind of way. Ibu can chat to the
American or Russian pilot; sit
in the passenger seats orhud-
dle on sacks of cargo in the
rear. Veteran aid workers
calmly tell stories of pilots get-
ting tok, and of aircraft that run
out of fuel (with no working
radio to organise a rescue).
Such occasional dramas apart
however, the three-hour jour-
ney is strangely routine, like a
commuter's flight from
Heathrow to Aberdeen.

Villagers in southern Sudan glimpse another world when one of many planes arrives with food and medical supplies

7b mPilston

On arrival the visitor re-
mains cocooned The aid work-
ers' encampment is a place
where you can enjoy a foil fry-
up breakfast - sausage, bacon,
eggs, the works - with unlim-
ited supplies of coffee, tea and
drinking water.

The contrast between the
two worlds is no less discon-
certing for the sense that there
is no way around it The visitor
can drop something tiny into
this ocean of poverty - giving
away a T-shirt here, a pair of
shoes there. Aid workers who

live there give their s kills , every
day. But beyond that, the gap
remains unbridgeable
Occasionally, arguments ex-
plode between aid organisa-
tions about the extent to which
they could usefully blend in
more with their habitat. Chris-

tian Aid, one of the agencies
most active in southern Sudan,
prides itself on being involved
with projects that are locally
driven and organised. But
other agencies, including the
LIN World Food Programme,
have become involved in dis-

putes about how aid should be
organised. Some complain that
institutional conservatism
means the devastating famine
last year was recognised too
late. Others complain that ar-
rogance and ignorance meant
that some goods, including

building materials for an
agency compound were flown
in at enormous expense when
they were available locally.
There have been complaints,
too, that expatriates are em-
ployed where locals are equal-
ly qualified.

Even if these arguments
are resolved, what one aid
woriter calls the “weird feeling"
of two worlds remains. By de-
fault. the aid agencies here
have become a kind of alter-
native government There is no
civilian leadership in southern
Sudan. The Islamic govern-
ment in Khartoum has no con-
trol over anything but a few
pockets of the breakaway
Christian south (it bombs the
south and sponsors bandit vi-
olence, but not much else;: the
southern rebels, the Sudan
People's Liberation Army, are
more interested in fighting the
north than in making civilian
structures work. Into this vac-
uum come the aid agencies, at-
tempting to make sense out of
the anarchy.

The task is daunting. Ac-
cording to some analysts,
famine may again be on the
way this yean either “food
shortages" or “famine" are
forecast, depending on who
you talk to. Either way. there
will be no shortage of suffering
- at least unless Khartoum is
forced to end this long and bit-
ter war. All over southern
Sudan, well-dressed passen-
gers win continue to disembark
on a daily basis, and to disap-
pear again into an unforgiving
blue sky.

Steve Crawshaw

a- :hv *'S . '■ • J'

Netanyahu
falters as poll
race hots up

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By Patrick Cockburn
in Jerusalem

HAS THE magician turned into
a rabbit? This is the hope of the
multitude of personal and polit-
ical enemies of Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu, the Israeli Prime
Minista; afla* the first real dash
of the Israeli election campaign.
It happened on television, a
forum where Mr Netanyahu
built his career and usually
shines. But in a Jive debate ear-
lier this week he floundered as
Yitzhak Mordechal his former
defence minister and a prime
ministerial candidate, accused
him of possessing ‘^either truth,
nor honesty nor integrity".

The debate confirms that
the election is not about nego-
tiations with the Palestinians,
but about Mr Netanyahu's per-
sonality. Mr Mordechal one of
an astonishing number of the
prime minister’s former min-
isters who now regard him
with loathing, told him: “The
elections are about you."

Ehud Barak, leader of the Is-
raeli Labour party, now re-
named One Israel, and Mr
Netanyahu’s main opponent,
was not even in the television
studio, but emerged as the win-
ner In the nm-iq) to Ihe election
on 17 May - with a run-off on l
June if no candidate to be prime
minister gets more than half the
vote - Mr Netanyahu’s former
friends are proving as danger-
ous as his declared enemies.

It is aU very different from the
1996 election, which Mr Ne-
tanyahu won fcya whisker Then
the pofl took place after the as-

Ebud Barak: Poses main
challenge to Netanyahu

sassmation ofYitzhak R ab i n , the
prime minist er Palestinian sui-
cide bombers had just lolled
about 60 people, and Israeli par-
ents were afraid to send their
children to school by bus.

Mr Netanyahu might justifi-
ably claim that be has suc-
ceeded in removing this threat
over the past three years. Many 1
voters feel Israel is a less vio-
lent place than it was at the
height of the internationally
lauded Oslo peace process. Iron-
ically Mr Netanyahu's very suc-
cess in short-circuiting Oslo
without paying the price of an
increase in Palestinian violence
has its disadvantages for his
election campaign. Without a
sense of threat from the Pales-
tinians, Mr Netanyahu's por-
trayal ofhimself as the man best
able to deal with Yasser Arafat,
the Palestinian leader, res-
onates less with Israeli voters.

Mr Barak has also been busy
inoculating himself against the
allegation that he is Mr Arafat’s

choice. In the past week he has
announced he will hold a refer-
endum on a final status agree-
ment with the Palestinians. He
promised not to withdraw to Is-
rael's pre-1967 borders and to
keep Jewish settlements in the
West Bank and Gaza under Is-
raeli sovereignty.

The One Israel leader also
has problems with his core
support. In 19% some 83 per
cent of the Israeli-Arabs voted
for Shimon Peres, the Labour
candidate. But this time Azmi
Bishara. an Israeli-Arab, is a
candidate who will siphon off
votes from Mr Barak in the first
round of voting on 17 May. Un-
fortunately for Mr Barak, this
is also the day of the Knesset
elections in which Israeli-Arab
parties are standing. In the
second round, with only two
Jewish candidates for the
prime minister’s office to vote
for, many Israeli-Arabs may
stay at home, costing Mr Barak
vital votes. He knows his chan-
ces are better in the first round.
Bat he can win at this stage only
if Mr Mordechai withdraws.
Fbr this reason, many of Mr N e-
tanyahu’s supporters think that
his failure in the television de-
bate may be to their advantage.
It will keep Mr Mordechai,
whose campaign was dead in
the waten in the race.

During the debate he
promised Mr Netanyahu not to
withdraw. Nobody knows better
than the Prime Minister that
such pledges are made to be
broken, but the magician of Is-
raeli politics is still a long way
from losing his job.

Starr tells Senate his
job should be abolished

ifW

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KENNETH STARR, the inde-
pendent prosecutor whose in-
vestigation into the Monica
Lewinsky affair almost ended
Bill Clinton’s president said
yesterday that the job was a con-
stitutional aberration and
should be abolished. Mr Starr
was testifying before the Senate
gover nmental affairs committee
in his first public appearance
since the Senate acquitted Mr
Clinton of lying and obstructing
justice in January.

Congress must decide
whether to renew what is
known as the independent
counsel statute when its term
expires at the end of June. The

Watergate scandal in an at-.

By Mary Dejevsky
in Washington

tempt to prevent a President
exerting political pressure on
the judiciary. The way it func-
tioned in the four-year investi-
gation into President Clinton -
starting with the inquiry into
the Whitewater land deal -
provoked a storm of criticism,
not least on grounds of ex-
pense. The investigation into
President Clinton has so for
cost more than $40m.

Alluding to his own prob-
lems in conducting the investi-
gation into the President, Mr
Starr said the post of indepen-
dent prosecutor had myriad
defects which limited its effec-

tiveness and exposed the hold-
er to political attack. "No mat-
ter what the Congress decides,
no matter what microsurgicaJ
precision is applied to fine-tune
the statute, these problems will
endure," he said yesterday.

Mr Starr has long opposed
the independent counsel
statute. But he accepted his ap-
pointment once nominated,
and fiercely defended the per-
formance of his office in doing
its constitutional duty.

The attorney-general Janet
Reno, has already recom-
mended that the statute not be
renewed. With opposition to
the law shared by both parties.
Kenneth Starr could be the
last to hold the post.

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news desk: 0171-293 2636 Fax: 0171-293 2098

BUSINESS

Briefing

JP Morgan profits soar to $ 600 m

^MORGAN, the US investment bank saw first quarter
profits jump 64 per cent to $600m (£3 80m) - almost double
analysts’ expectations. The bank, which traditionally
Bakes a higher proportion of its earnings from its trading
operations, has benefited from the record-breaking share
price run in the first quarter. On Tuesday Merrill Lynch,
the biggest US investment bank, reported an 18 per cent
rise in first quarter profits .

Schraders doubles Wassail stake

SCHRODEBS INVESTMENT
Management has bought
5.25m shares in Wassail,
doubling its stake to 6.74
per cent, a spokesman for
the fond manager said
yesterday.. The spokesman
declined to say whether
the purchase is related to
the current bid by Wassail
for B1CC. which is being
advised by Schroders'
merger and acquisitions
arm, J Henry Schroder.

Wassail, headed by chief executive Chris Miller
(pictured), has made three offers for BICC, the latest
at HOp a share in cash, all of which have been
rejected. Wassail shares fen S.5p to 216p yesterday,
while BICC rose 1.5p to 108p.

GM cardholders can reap rewards

FROM l MAX GM Creditcard holders can use reward
points on their cards to save up to £500 on used Vauxhalls
and up to £2,000 on all new Cadillacs and Chevrolet cars
bought in the UK, Richard Parker; the manager of the GM
card said yesterday. Cardholders will also be able to earn
bonus points when paying for parts, repairs, servicing
and accessories at VauxhaU dealerships. The new
benefits build on the original bonus scheme introduced
five years ago which allows cardholders to earn discounts
of up to £2,500 on new Vauxhalls.

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Ticaus Cook

Blair intervenes in C&W’s
telecoms battle with

THE PRIME MINISTER Tony
Bl a ir, has intervened on behalf
of Cable & Wireless, the tele-
com group, in its row with the
Japanese government about
Caw’s attempts to gain a
foothold in the Japanese tele-
com market

In a move that could escalate
intoafuDyTledgedtradewarMr
Blair is understood to have com-
plained to the Japanese gov-
ernment about moves by NTT
the state-owned telecom giant,
to force C&W out of the Japan-
ese market The United States'
Hade Representative, Chariene
Barshefcfcy, is also thought to

by Peter Thal Larsen

have joined the debate. C&W is
currently hying to take control
oflDC, a long-distance telecom
operator which was set up by a
consortium of companies, in-
cluding C&W in 1987. However,
NTT has trumped its offer and
is now threatening to invoke new
provisions in Japanese compa-
ny law which can be used to force
minority shareholders to sell
their shares.

C&W, which has a 17.7 per
cent stake in IDC, has tabled an
offer for IDC which values the
company at Y62.4bn i£328nu.

But NTT is thought to be try-
ing to snatch control of IDC by
making a higher offer. The
decision on the deal rests with
IDC's main shareholders, in-
cluding the car group Toyota
and Itochu, the trading com-
pany both of which have 17.7
per cent shareholdings. Air-
touch, the US mobile phone
operator which recently
merged with Vodafone has a 10
per cent stake.

"Corporate Japan is gen-
uinely determined that Japan
will get control of IDC,” one
analyst said yesterday. “C&W
are really annoyed." C&W is

hoping to invoke pre-emption
rights, which it claims were
negotiated at the time of the
d ea l, allowing it to match any

offer made for shares in IDC by

an outside bidder Meanwhile,
C&W has indicated it has no in-
tention of selling its stake. How-
ever, a new provision which is
due to be added to Japan’s
commercial code later this year
would allow NTT to force C&W
to sell its stake if the Japanese
group managed to take a con-
trolling stake in IDC.

Uniter the new rule, which is
designed to speed the restruc-
turing of Japanese industry, a

majority shareholder can force
1 a minority shareholder to sell
provided the bidder has the

approval of its own sharehold-
ers. Because NTT is controlled

the state, the Japanese gov-
ernment would effectively have
to approve the move.

“We have received assur-
ances from the Japanese gov-
ernment that the the ownership

of IDC will be treated as a
purely commercial matter;” a
C&W spokesman said. “As the
government i s a majority

shareholder in NTT it would be

very strange if it allowed this to

go ahead” Rod Olsen, a former

C&W director who helped
negotiate the setting up of lDC
and still sits on its board, is
^ndm-stood to have flown out to
ja pp n this week to attempt to
resolve the deadlock. Ga inin g
control oflDC would give C&W
a much-needed Japanese leg to
its business. The venture also
has a fast-growing Internet
division which would combine
with the US internet business
C&W bought from MCI World-
Com last yean “Getting access;
to Japanese internet volumes
in the future will be very help-
ful," an analyst said.

Outlook, page 15

House prices
in London
rise by 10%

THE UK housing market could
be set for a bumper 1999,
according to new research,
with house prices in some parts
of the country rising by as
much as 10 per cent over the
last 12 months.

The quarterly Halifax hous-
ing index, which came out this
mor ning , reveals that home-
owners in London, the North
West and Northern Ireland
have benefited most from the
recent recovery in the housing
market Prices in all three of
these regions are up by more
than 2.5 per cent since the
start of the year.

In Greater London and
Northern Ireland, the annual
rates of house price inflation are
running at 9.6 per cent and 10.1
per cent respectively, according
to Halifax research. The aver-
age price paid per house sold
in Greater London is £114,666,
compared to a nationwide
average of £73,657.

The situation is less rosy
however; in other areas, some
of which have seen house
prices continue to M. Scotland,
Wales, EastAnglia and most of
Southern England have seen
prices decline since January.

There have also been Ms in
house prices in the West Mid-
lands, Halifax said, possibly
because of the damage inflicted
on economic confidence by
uncertainly over the future of
Rover’s Longbridge plant

On average, house prices in
the UK rose by 02 per cent in
the first quarter of the year,
according to Halifax, and have

By Lea Paterson

risen by 4.4 per cent over the
last 12 months.

Over the longer term, Hali-
fax said it was “cautiously op-
timistic”, citing the current low
interest rate environment and
the “modest Impact” of the
Budget as factors that would
support properly prices going
forward.

Other experts agreed with
Halifax’s assessment of the
housing market saying that
prices were on the up, partic-
ularity hi London, but there
was as yet no danger of over-
heating.

Hairy Hill, the managing
director of Countrywide As-
sured, the estate agency group
which yesterday reported
record monthly trading figures,
said: “The market is showing a
lot more resilience, but it's
against a very subdued back-
ground."

Yolande Barnes of the prop-
erty consultant FPD Savills
said- “in the mainstream mar-
ket there is scope for prices to
rise substantially"

In a separate survey, Na-
tionwide building society found
there had been a “marked pick-
up” in house prices, and in-
creased its forecast for 1999
house price inflation from 3 per
cent to 4.5 per cent

According to Nationwide,
the Bank of England’s recent
aggressive interest rates cuts
had substantially contributed to
the improved housing market
sentiment

For Sale signs line a London street House prices in the capital have risen by 2.5 per cent so for this year

Halifax puts 1,500 jobs at risk

lip TO 1500 jobs could be at risk
at Halifax, the UK bank, which
yesterday announced plans to
sell more than a third of its
estate agency outlets, writes
Lea Paterson.

Halifax, which currently
owns 606 agencies nationwide,
has put 224 outlets up for sale
- a move that is expected to
save the former building soci-
ety as much as fSOm per year

The bank said It hoped to
minimis* * redundancies among
the L500 affected employees by
s elling as many outlets as pos-
sible as going concerns.

James Crosby, the Halifax

chief executive, said he had
already received numerous
expressions of interest, while
Countrywide Assured, the UK’s
largest estate agency chain,
confirmed that it was among
the potential bidders for the
H aSfo x outlets. Analysts valued
the outlets at around £20m.

Mr Crosby said: “It may be
easier to sell all the agencies to
one buyer but we are going to
be particularly influenced by
what is right for our employees.
My best guess is that the end
result will be a number of
groupings as well as some
individual sales.”

According to Halifax, the
move is part of a wider reor-
ganisation initiated by Mr
Crosby in December and the
sale of the 224 outlets will
enable the bank to concentrate
its efforts in the regions where
most of its customers live.

Areas where Halifax has a
relatively small presence -
such as Wales and the East of
England - will bear the brunt
of the estate agency sales, and
a total of 1 500 full and part-time
staff will be affected

Halifax said it was reorgan-
ising its current 123 banting
and estate agency areas into

just 50 “customer marketing”
areas, and that a single
manager in each area would be
responsible for both the estate
agency and the banking
business.

This would result in some -
but not all -estate agency out-
lets being combined with the
banking outlets, Halifax said.

The bank expects to incur
exceptional costs of up to £25m
from the disposal, and will
forego revenues from the out-
lets of £3Qm per year for the first
two to three years.

The shares closed up &5p at
864p.

Barclays weighs up its options

THE BARCLAYS BANK board
meets today for tbe second
time this week following Mon-
day's shock news that the new
chief executive Mike O'Neill
was retiring on health grounds
after one day in the office.

Directors of the bank have
their first opportunity to
formally discuss the issues
facing the bank in the wake of
Mr O’Neill’s departure, in-
cluding the suggestion that
Royal Bank of Scotland is keen
to initiate discussions about a
£32bn merger.

RBS’s claim to be the only
bank that could realistically
pull off a deal with Barclays at
this stage was reinforced by
comments by Peter EUwaod,

By Andrew Garfield
financial Editor

the chief executive of Lloyds-
TSB. at the bank’s annual
general meeting in Edinburgh.
He said the bank was
convinced that any merger
with a bank the size of Bar-
clays would be blocked by the
regulatory authorities.

The prospect of a merger
drove the two banks’ shares
higher yesterday. Barclays
was up 25p at I944p. RBS was
up I9p at l,444p, both against
a backdrop of a falling market

A hastily convened board
meeting at Barclays on Mon-
day endorsed the belief of Sir
Peter Middleton, Barclays’

acting chief executive and
chairman-elect, that the bank
should concentrate on finding
a replacement and should not
be panicked into a merger at
this stage.

However, the meeting,
which lasted no more than an
hour, was specifically to ad-
dress the terms of Mr O’Neill’s
departure and no substantive
issues were discussed.

A number of key board
members including Sir Nigel
Mobbs, chairman of property
company Slough Estates, and
tbe senior non-executive were
abroad and unable to partic-
ipate folly in discussions.

Investment bankers said
yesterday that they under-

stood that the Royal Bank
believed that Scottish Wid-
ows, the Edinburgh-based mu-
tual life insurer, could be
persuaded to join in a three-
way merger. The attraction
would be of a powerful savings
brand.

“They have definitely talked
about using Scottish Widows.

That may be the card that wins
the day,” one banker said yes-
terday.

Barclays has so far re-
sponded coolly to suggestions
of a merger deal. Barclays
executives said yesterday:
“We would not think of con-
solidation as a solution to our
chief executive problem."

News analysis, page 17

3i has upper hand
in Electra struggle

ELECTRA, the venture capital
group fighting a £l.25bn bid
from 3i, last night appeared to
be heading for defeat at today’s
shareholder meeting.

Institutions accounting for at
least 24.6 per cent of its shares
were reported to be prepar ing
to vote against the board’s re-
construction proposals. 3i
needs 25 per cent of the votes
to be sure of blocking Electra’s
plans to buyback 40 per cent of
its shares and wind the trust up
although with at least 10 per
cent of the shareholders ex-
pected not to vote, Electra’s
hopes of surviving looked slim,
although neither side would

BY ANDREW GARFlFT .n

comment on which way t
expected the vote to go.

GE Investment, the US p
sion fond has said it will be '
ing its 2 per cent on Elect
behalf. Equitable Life with
percent and US Steel Came
with 3.1 per cent are also
lieved to be inten ding to b
Electra today. Against that
ranged the Prudential with
per cent, Legal & General v
4 per cent Standard life v
4-2 per cent Philips & Di
with 5.3 per cent Franklin v
2.3 per cent and Royal Sun

fiance with 0.6 per cent

AROUND THE WORLD’S MARKETS

LONDON

FOOTSIE HIT yet another trading
high but found the pace too much
and by the close was nursing a 19 5
points fall to 6.493.6. Supporting
shares, however were in more
buoyant form.

Imperial Chemical Industries
was the best performing blue chip,
gaining 47.5p to 635.5p as talk
resurfaced that it was on the
verge of clinching a near £2bn sale
of its industrial chemical
operations to Huntsman, an
American group.

Derek Pain, page 18

NEW YORK

US SHARES moved still higher
during the morning with the DJIA
gaining 115 points to yet another
all-time high of lOJill at midday,
after recovering from mid-
morning losses. The rally was led
by investment bank JP Morgan
after it reported earnings of 33J) la
share against estimates of $L73-
The biggest movements were in
response to earnings results and
forecasts. Some blue chip stocks
responded to demand from
investors picking up stock ahead of
today’s deadline for tax returns.

TOKYO

HOPES THAT Japanese pension
funds will soon be allocating new
money into the stock market
helped sustain the rally in Tokyo,
p ushing (he Nikkei 225 share index
03 per cent higher to 16,764.68.

A brighter-than-expected picture
of prospects for the economy from
Herwig Schloegl, the deputy
secretary-general of the OECD,

praising the measures taken try the
government, also helped sentiment
High-tech shares such as Sony and
NEC eased but banks and
insurance shares benefited.

HONG KONG

THE HANG SENG index turned
lower after the 18-month peak it
readied on Tuesday.

Tbe index closed 65.56 points
down at 11,834.13 on profit-
taking, after failing to break
through 12,000.

Reports that life assurance
companies are cutting US
investment encouraged a note of
caution. Hongkong Telecom
pined Q.2 to SHKlG.is. Shares
m broker Celestial Asia rose 21
per cent and have more than
doubled In a week.

PARIS

CONTINUING FIGHTING in KOSOVO
weakened European stock
markets and the Eurotop 300 share
0- 47 Per cent In Paris the
LAC-40 index closed 0,42 per cent
tower at 4,349.26 in spite of fresh
strength on Wall Street
Banks in the bidding yrar feD
sharply in the continuing absence
M? < f Wnt T- bid - SodeteGeaerale

fell almost 3 per cem to 162.7
euros, BNP was more than 2 per
rent lower at 74.80 and Paribas

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Don’t get too optimistic just yet

CRACK OPEN the champagne, dust
down the dinner jacket - boom
times are here again. Or at least
that’s what you might think had you
cast a cursory eye over the finan-
cial pages lately. Barely a day goes
by (including yesterday) without
some sort of record being set by
shares on Wall Street or in London.

Business confidence is surging
again and according to yesterday’s
Merrill Lynch hind managers sur-
vey, bulls of corporate profits out-
number bears for the first time in
the survey’s history. Short though
that history might be, this is quite
a finding. House prices are on the
up - by as much as 10 per cent in
some parts of the country. The lux-
ury end of the market is said to be
doing particularly well. Some com-
mentators even sense the first
green shoots of recovery in that
perpetual laggard, Japan.

So is everything as rosy as the
financial markets would haw us be-
lieve? Not really. Obviously, things
are not as black as they were back
in October, when the markets and
the global financial system were
both looking decidedly sick. Alan
Greenspan's decision to cut US in-
terest rates and organise a bailout
for Long-Term Capital Manage-

Outlook

meet succeeded in heading off the
risk of global calamity.

On the other hand, it did nothing
to address the deep structural
problems that exist in many of the
world's economies - exceptionally
high levels of corporate indebted-
ness, an appabng lack of informa-
tion about the ins and outs of
banking systems, and inflexible
labour markets, to name just a
few.

There are signs that many of
these difficulties are slowly being
dealt with, but they will take years
- not months - to resolve.

All this suggests that the mar-
kets' enthusiasm is a little mis-
placed, and that policy makers

need to keep alert - surging busi-
ness and consumer confidence can
easily turn into inflationary pres-
sure. History suggests there is a
real danger this could happen.

Back in 1987, the US fled cut in-
terest rates in order to stave off per
ceived financial disaster, and was
then forced to apply the brakes to
quell the subsequent consumer
boom. Policy makers are deter-
mined not to repeat those mis-
takes this time round. In most of the
world’s major economies, the next
move in interest rates is therefore
likely to be up. Enjoy the current
mood of economic optimism while
it lasts. It may not be very long.

Japanese blues

IT IS ironic, but the first use of new
laws designed to speed structural
and corporate reform in Japan looks
like being for that time-honoured
Japanese sport - keeping the nasty
foreigners out of the Japanese econ-
omy. As a result, our very own
Cable & Wireless is in severe dan-
ger of losing its toe-hold in the
world’s second largest economy.

Given how difficult it was to se-
cure it in the first place, and the fact

that C&W wants to enhance its po-
sition, not diminish it, the company
is right to fed aggrieved and to ramp
the issue tip into a fiiQy- fledged trade
dispute.

Lord Sharpe, a former chairman
of C&W, had to fight long and hard
to be allowed to participate in
Japan's telecommunications mar-
ket Eventually he was allowed in as
part of a consortium licensed to com-
pete as an international telecoms
carrier That business has perhaps
never quite lived up to its early
promise, but at least it is something,
and as part of the company’s in-
ternational strategy C&W now
wants to take full control of the op-
eration, buying out other partners
who are keen to selL

The problem is that Japan's dom-
inant domestic carrier NTT, also
wants to buy. The management and
other partners seem more inclined
to sell to NTT than C&W Further-
more, other partners, including the
car manufacturer Toyota, may not
be prepared to honour pre-emption
rights entitling C&W to full control.

Tb most Westerners, this already
begins to look like an all-too- famil-
iar Japanese stitch-up. but it gets
worse. C&W has indicated that it is
determined to remain in as a mi-

nority shareholder even if others sen
to NTT Unfortunately for C&W new'
laws designed to ease much-need-
ed corporate restructuring in Japan
would allow NTT to “squeeze out"
the troublesome minority through
compulsory purchase of its shares.

C&W is thus hit by a double
whammy. First its pre-emption
rights, allowing it to up its stake in
Japanese telecoms, are ignored,
then it is forced out altogether This
is a terrible state of affairs, and it
might reasonably be said that it
could only happen in Japan. Tech-
nically speaking, this is not a trade
issue, since it is not about the import
and export of goods, but it falls into
a similar bracket

What this is about is the use of
local laws, customs and prejudicial
practice to exclude a foreign com-
pany from Japan's domestic market,

and it is powerful backing for the con-

tention that nothing has really
changed in Japan, despite all the talk
of structural reform and a new eco-
nomic dawn.

It is often said that the US’s bur-
geoning trade deficit now stands out
as the biggest single threat to the fu-
ture health of the world economy.
The cause of this deficit, however, is
not confined to the differing eco-

nomic performance of the US and
the rest of the world. It is as much
about barriers to trade, protection-
ism and unfair practice as anything
else. In this department, Japan con-
tinues to be a mqjor offender

Halifax

MIKE BLACKBURN was said to
have been bounced out of his job as
chief executive of the Halifax for fail-
ing to proride a good enough answer
to the question of what Britain's
biggest building society turned bank
was for Now his successor Jim Cros-
by. has adopted the posture of one
ordering a rearrangement of
deckchairs on the decks of the Ti-
tanic.

Halifax's sense of timing could
hardly have been better Halifax
chose the very day its own number
crunchers said the housing mar ket
is going like a train to announce a
big rationalisation of its estate
agents chain, including the sale of
222 branches.

The story is a painfully famili ar
one, for Halifax isn't the only big fi-
nancial institution to have' squan-
dered its money by buying into
estate agencies at the top of the

housing market, paying the price
through the trou g h, and then com-
pounding its error by getting out just
when the market is beginning to turn
once more. Prudential did the same

thing

When Jim Crosby was hurriedly
appointed Iastyear many in the City
expressed doubts but most said he
should be given time to prove him-
self. As time wears on the question
about whether he really has the abil-
ity to raise bis head above opera-
tional matters grows more pressing.

The mortgage market is in long-
term decline, margins are being
eroded, and the Halifax is struggling
to maintain market share. Six
months ago the bank was considered
as a merger candidate for Barclays.
Not now.

Halifax is one of the best brands
in retail financial services and the
organisation is generally considered
in the City to be well run. In terms
of market capitalisation it is still big-
ger than Deutsche Bank. It is also
sitting on £l.5bn of surplus cash.
Yesterday's rationalisation of the es-
tate agents may be reasonable
enough housekeeping, but it will do
nothing to reverse the sense that all
the Halifax can do is genteelly
manage its own decline.

Polypipe in
advanced £337m
merger talks

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POLYPIPE, the plastic pipes
make r; is in advanced teikg
that could lead to a cash offer
of 200p per share, the compa-
ny announced yesterday. The
offer would value Polypipe at
£337m and an announcement
on an agreed deal could come
aajarly as this morning.

Jfolypipe shares soared 23
per cent to I93.5p on the news
as analysts speculated on the
identity of the possible bidder.

Attention initially focused
on Hepworth, the Gloworm
boiler and pipes company. The
group declined to comment on
market speculation, however
its advisers pointed out that
Hepworth had a much smaller
deal referred to tire Monopolies
and Mergers Commission be-
fore Easter.

Insiders say a bid for Polyp-
ipe would also run into com-
petition problems with the
regulators.

Glynwed, the maker of Aga
boilers, is seen as a possible
predator as is IMI and Pipelife,
an Austro-Belgian joint ven-
ture.

by Nigel cope
A ssociate City Editor

“There has been a process
of consolidation in this sector
so this is no surprise” one an-
alyst said.

Polypipe is run by Kevin
McDonald, its chairman, who
started the business in 1980
after running Hepworth’s pipe
operations. Mr McDonald is
Potypipe’s largest shareholder
with a 16.7 per cent stake worth
around £50m. But at 65, ana-
lysts say he could be looking to
cash in bis holding.

Polypipe has been seen as a
possible acquirer in recent
months and has been linked
with a £23m bid for Avonside.
At its interim results presen-
tation last month the company
said it was ready to gear lip for
deals after interest rates had
come down sharply.

Polypipe reported flat half-
year profits of £12m. In the last
foil year Polypipe recorded
profits of £34. 6m on sales of
£2 73m.

Pipes and fittings account

for almost 60 per cent of prof-
its, with bathrooms and
kitchens accounting for an-
other 15 per cenL

It sells mostly to builders
merchants rather than DIY
superstores. The company also
has interests in Germany,
Poland and France.

Its drainage systems busi-
ness would be attractive to a
bidder The company also has
strong market positions in the
manufacture of toilet seats,
where it is number one in the
UK, and in garden furniture.

“It is very difficult to thrive
in this market if you are sman,"
one analyst said. “And they
have probably reached matu-
rity in their core UK plastics
business."

The building materials sec-
tor has gradually been consol-
idating although analysts say
the process still has a long way
to go.

Deals in the sector so far in-
dude the Lafarge takeover of
Redland, CRH's takeover of
Ibstock and the Etex deal with
Marley.

Economists raise UK
forecasts for growth

by lea Paterson

INDEPENDENT ECONOMISTS

have upped their forecasts for
UK growth for the first time in
more than a year; according to
figure s released yesterday, with
the bulk of experts now confi-
dent the economy will escape
recession.

The latest set of independent
forecasts released by the U'ea-
sury show that the consensus
growth estimate for 1999 is now
0.7 per cent, compared to an es-
tbnate last month of 0.6 per cent
ISpbough this is stDl signifi-
cantly below the official Trea-
sury estimate of growth of
between 1 and 1 J5 per cent the

figures reflect a growing belief

in the City that the UK econo-
my has turned the cornet:

Independent growth esti-
mates for 2000 have risen from
L8 per cent last month to L9 per
cent this month, while inflation
is expected to remain benign
throughout this year and next

INDEPENDENT FORECASTS
FOR THE ECONOMY

Growth in-1999

Old forecast New forecast
0.7 0.6

Growth tn 2000

T.9 1.8

A separate survey released
yesterday by the investment
bank Mer^ lymii provided far-
ther evidence (rf the tide of ge-
nomic optimism sweeping
through London’s financial mar-
kets. Eighty-three per cent of
UK fond managers expect the
British economy to be stronger
a year from now, compared with
a record low of just 3 per cent
back in Septembec
Bulls of profits outnumber
bears for the first time, accord-
ing to the Merrill Lynch/Gallup
survey with the average fore-
cast for 1999 earnings per share
growth up from just 0.8 per
cent in January to 4 per cent

The City’s fond managers ex-
pect the economy to grow by 1.1
percent this year; and by 2 per
cent in 2000.

Trevor Greetham, global
strategist at Merrill Lynch, said;
“The UK U-turn has been as-
tounding. All talk of recession is
gone. Economic optimism is
surging in Europe, the UK Asia
and Africa; 1999 may turn out to
be a surprisingly strong year."

Meanwhile, a report from
the consultancy Business
Strategies also predicted that
the UK would escape recession.
However, the consultancy
warned that the economic out-
look could vary considerably
from region to region, and that
output could fall in both Scotland
and the North-east

Dr Nefl Blake, research di-
rector of Business Strategies,
said: "Weak output growth com-
pared with continued rises in
productivity will mean that the
number of people in jobs will
fair

Albright
& Wilson
may buy
part of
US rival

By Francesco Guerrera

ALBRIGHT & WILSON, the fine
chemicals company at the cen-
tre of a bid battle between Rho-
dia of France and the US group
Albemarle, is in advanced talks
to buy part of a US rival in a deal
which could scupper the French
firm’s bid

News of the discussions
comes amid growing speculation
that Albemarle could increase its
£408m offer trumping Rhodia’s
£455m cash bid for the troubled
UK group. Albemarle defined to
comment yesterday.

The US company which owns
over 18 per cent of A&W. is ex-
pected to make a final decision
over the next few weeks but an-
atysts predict that it will raise its
cash offer in an attempt to drag
Rhodia into a fad battle.

The offer by the French
group, majority-owned by the
drugs giant Rhone-Foulenc, to
buy A&W is also under threat
from the UK group's talks with
the US chemical company So-
lutia. A&W is believed to be the
front-runner to buy the US
group’s phosphates division,
which has been valued at around
$200m l£125mi.

A victory l?y A&W which is
fackfing with its US partner PCS,
could derail the Rhodia 's bid on
competition grounds. Rhodia
and A&W are two of the largest
producers ofphosphates, chem-
icals used in fizzy drinks and
agriculture, and the addition of
Solutia is likely to raise objec-
tions by competition authori-
ties on both sides of the Atlantic.

By contrast, Albemarle is not
a large producer of phosphates
and would probably be allowed
to buy the enlarged A&W In its
original offer; Albemarle said
that it would support A&Ws at-
tempt to buy Solutia's phos-
phates division.

City analysts believe that the
Solutia talks are the reason for
the A&W board's failure to back
the Rhodia offer and to keep
their recommendation for the
lower bid by Albemarle.

Rhodia, which has over 20 per
cent of A&W declined to com-
ment yesterday but industry ex-
perts said the French group
could try to stop the A&W/Solu-
tia deal by appealing to the
Takeover PaneL

They believe the French
could claim that A&Ws pur-
chase of the Solutia's division is
a “frustrating action", as it dear-
ly hampers Rhodia’s bid, and
should be stopped.

Bosses complain about labour bill

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the balance of power much too
. ik towards unions by effec-
proposing a ban on dis-
missing strikers, according to

. the leaders of neartyS, 700 man*

, ufacturing companies.

I. .Ministers are being urged to

[ think again about the Employ*
\ ment Relations Bill, wfoch
gives new rights to employees
t aking pffipjal industrial action.

By Barrie Clement
L abour Editor

The Engineering Employers’
Federation fa calling on minis-
ters to phase in the legislation

over 18 months and warns that
it could be “very damaging'’ to

email and medium-sized com-
panies. A letter from the fed-
eration to Lord Falconer of
Thoroton the Cabinet Office

minis ter, expresses particular
concern about a proposal which
makes it unlawful to dismiss
strikers before eight weeks of
industrial action has elapsed.

David Yeandle, the head of
employment affairs at the fed-
eration, wrote that onty 4 per
cent of strikes in 1997 lasted
more than eight weeks and
therefore the proposed act
would in effect make it unlaw-

fid to sack strikers. In his let-
ter Mr Yeandle argues that
most companies would either
go bankrupt or suffer serious
financial damage long before
the eight week deadline.

He claimed that the proposal
had “come from nowhere” and
went way beyond the provi-
sions that were set out in the
Fbimess at Work white paper
published last year.

Mervyn Pedelty, chief executive of the Co-operative Bank, which announced record profits yesterday Paul Ross

Record profits as Co-op Bank
offers ISAs at the checkout

THE CO-OPERATIVE Bank
plans to get closer to its roots
and exploit the potential of its
retail partners in order to
maintain its expansion pro-
gramme, after posting record
profits for the fifth year in suc-
cession, Mervyn Pedelty. the
bank's chief executive said
yesterday.

A further 350 cash dis-
pensers are to be installed in
Co-op convenience stores, the
bank's new Individual Savings
Accounts are available at retail
store checkouts and plans are
afoot to market new products
with the Co-op's travel agen-

By Clifford German

des. The bank fa also poised to
re-enter the mortgage lending
market for the first time since
its small existing mortgage
book was sold off in 1992.

The Co-op’s profits before
tax rose 34 per cent to £73.6m
in the year to 9 January 1999,
up from £55m last year. The
rise was helped by a combi-
nation of sharply increased
lending and deposits, an in-
crease in the margin between
deposit and lending rates and
tigjht controls on costs.

Operating income grew by

12 per cent Fee income rose
by less than 6 per cent but av-
erage customer lending rose
by 10 per cent, average de-
posits grew by 14 per cent, net
interest income rose by 15 per
cent and the margin between
deposit costs and lending
returns rose from 4.5 per cent
to 4.7 per cent, helped by the
rise in average interest rates.

The Co-op’s bad debt pro-
visions went up from £25m to
£4 1.6m, increasing from 1.1
per cent to 1.9 per cent of the
loan book but this reflected the
controlled growth of higher
margin unsecured personal

lending, Mr Pedelty said. Op-
erating costs rose by under 2
per cent and staffing levels ac-
tually fell slightly, although
there were no redundancies.

The bank's reserve ratios
edged higher and its market
share rose, with 20,000 people
joining its Internet banking
service in the last year, al-
though the bank still has little
more than 2 per cent of the UK
market.

Last year's growth rates
are unlikely to be maintained
as the economy slows, but the
current year has started
strongly.

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Legal Notices

CH 1987 C No I

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
CHANCERY DIVISION
MANCHESTER DISTRICT REGISTRY
Before Hfc Honour Jutge Mwtdocta rifting vs a Jud& of Ac High
Conn Bl ManchtsirT on Friday ihe 9th day oT April 1M9.

BETWEEN:

GERALD CORRIGAN and

ELIZABETH CORRIGAN (Hb Wife I iHb Widow) PhinUfT
A ad

LLOYDS BANK PLC First Defendant
And

SEAN FRANCIS CORRIGAN Second Defendant
Anri

SANDRA CORRIGAN Third Drfandiwl
(BY AN ORIGINAL ACTION I
LLOYDS BANK PLC Plaintiff
And

ELIZABETH CORRIGAN Fmt Ddcndwt
And

SEAN CORRIGAN Second DeTcDdani
And

SANDRA CORRIGAN Third Defendant
AND IT IS ORDERED

(!) Tbu second and Hurd defendants do transfer io (be plaintiff ihcir
title in the property know as Crass Pork Bungalow. HafwilL
tfcawonfay. tX-wm.

( -J Should i be second and ihinl defendants fail id execute such a
transfer within 14 days of today's dale, a district judge of ihe
-Supreme Court shall exceed the transfer on behalf of the second
and third iLTef.iLnu.

Dated this “Ah day of April IWJ,

Full details of the*e proceedings can be obtained [rum:- Glaisyrrs
Solicitors 6ib Floor. Manchester House. 18-20 Bridge Street.
Manchester M3 3FY.

TH- 0161 832 46WIL Ref: N RJ/R WR’S 1 1 2-i

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CELSIUS COMMISSIONING
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Stephen Lotd of Poptriefen &
AptiUiy. 22 High Street Manchefec

MJ 1QO was tunned Liquidator of
the euxe imomI Compm? by Ihe
Member* and Dnfims on Ttti Ajail
1999.

Dated 7A Apil 19W
SlORD.UjmdMW

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NOna 6 HEHBY QVEN that l
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Liquidator of the atm* named
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Thursday 15 April 1999

BUSINESS/17

Scots want first bite of Barclays cherry

News Analysis: A three-way deal
with the Royal Bank of Scotland
and Scottish Widows could solve all
of the big bank’s problems at once

_^TH£ CITY was still digesting
•the news that Barclays was
bach to square one in its
search for a new chief execu-
tive, when Sir George Math-
ewson. the chief executive of
Royal Bank of Scotland, let it
be known that if there gen-
uinely was an opening for a
' merger deal then it wanted to
be first in the queue.

It was even suggested by
some investment banking
sources yesterday that Sir
George might be able to per-
suade Mike Ross at Scottish
Widows to throw it into the pot
to create a three-way deal.

This would solve the Bar-
clays leadership issue at a
stroke. RBS has a respected,
if somewhat prickly, chief
executive and an able deputy
in the shape of Fred Goodwin,
who recently joined from Na-
-'jpional Australia B ank. RBS
k would also provide a finance
director to replace Oliver
Stocken. who has twice had to
delay hjs retirement from Bar-
clays. All of the English dear-
ers too would also love to do a
deal with Barclays. HSBC,
Lloyds-TSB and Nat West are
among those who have been
down that road in the past

But with Don Cruickshank’s
hanking mmmism in breathing
down their neck, few believe
that any further concentra-
tion in the banking market
would be acceptable on com-
petition grounds.

Peter EUwood, the Lloyds-
TSB chief executive, was tack-
led on the subject after the
bank’s AGM yesterday in
Edinburgh. He said: "Any
merger the size of Barclays
. would be blocked by the com-
. petition authorities.”

Neither the Royal nor its
. rival, the Bank of Scotland,

By Andrew Garfield
Financial Editor

would have that problem. RBS
has as many branches South of
the border as it has in the
North - enough to provide
some serious cost savings but
not enough to justify serious
competition concerns.

In addition, and this partic-
ular point is frequently
ignored, RBS has strong ties
with Banco Santander, which
is both Spain's largest bank,
and the Scottish bank's largest
shareholder. Banco Santander
in turn, has ties with Italy’s
IMI-San Paolo and France’s
CCE all banks which are play-
ing a crucial role in the con-
solidation of the continental
European banking sector:

Financial wizardry would
be needed to make the deal
work. The relative split in
terms of shareholders’ equity
works 79 per cent to 21 per cent
in Barclays’ favour, although
the gap in net income terms is
less wide: 68 per cent versus 32
per cent. Widows, which could
be worth fiobn on its own,
might just balance that
But the real obstacle to
such a deal is the lack of
enthusiasm on Barclays’ part
Sir Peter Middleton, acting
chief executive and chairman-
elect, despite his evident wish
to be allowed to hand on the
reins to a younger man quickly
rather than see his caretaker-
ship stretch out Into the
remainder of this year, has
made it abundantly clear that
he is in no mood to be panicked
into a deal, and that the search
for a new chief executive now
resumes where it left off
“We would not think of con-
solidation as a solution to our
CEO problem,” ran the curt

Banking chief executives Sir Peter Middleton of Barclays (left). Sir George Mathewson of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Peter Ellwood of Lloyds-TSB

response yesterday to news of
RBS’ interest

In essence Sir Peter's mes-
sage on Tuesday had been that
all that was needed was to
rummage around in one of the
dustbins outside Barclays’
headquarters in Graced] urch
Street, find the old list of can-
didates and get on the phone.

The bank's headhunters,
Spencer Stuart, had identified
six candidates of whom three
are believed to have been
American. Given the feiiout
from American banking merg-
ers there is also good reason
to suppose that some of those
identified wbo were not avail-
able then might now be free.

Ray Soifer, an analyst at
the Wall Street firm Brown
Brothers Harriman, said:
“They will find a chief execu-
tive. It is a very attractive
bank, and the post is one that

In Brief

British output still fails to impress

BRITAIN'S POOR post-war productivity record is
highlighted in a new report by the National Institute of
Economic and Social Research. The report, “Britain’s
productivity performance 1950-19%, An international
perspective", finds that in 1996, levels of output per
worker hour were about 20-30 per cent below those in the
US, France and Germany although slightly greater than
those in Japan. The report’s author; Mary O’Mahony, also
finds that Britain lags behind her competitors in stocks of
physical and human capital.

Japan’s crisis Mamed on ‘rigidity’

URGENT REFORM of Japan’s regulatory system is needed
if the country is to avoid prolonged economic stagnation,
the Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development
(OECD) has warned. In a review of Japan’s regulatory
reform process the OECD said that structural rigidities
resulting from an increasingly outmoded regulatory and
institutional framework were to blame for the country’s
current economic crisis. “Japan has stood out among the
G7 in its inability to adapt to the shocks of the Nineties,
which have been common to many OECD countries,” the
report said. But while it called for greater informed

inside Japan the OECD also said that the review,
£jjs* missioned by the Japanese government, was a clear
sign of its commitment to reform.

Health firm chief earns over £1m

rill CASTELL, the chief executive of the health
technology group Nycomed Amersham, netted over Elm
from salary and share options last year The Anglo-
Norwegian’s group annual report shows that in 1998 Mr
Castell earned a total salary of £620,918, a 37.5 per cent
rise on 1997. He also made over £387,000 from the
exercise of share options awarded under the company's
long-term incentive plan.

Paris puts the brakes on spencfing

FRENCH GOVERNMENT spending will not be allowed to
rise by more than 0.3 per cent in fiscal 2000 compared
with a generous 1 per cent increase in the current yean
French government sources said yesterday. The Prime
Minister, Lionel Jospin, will send instructions to ministers
later this week, in preparation for the finance bill which is
I Jo be submitted to the parliament in the autumn. Earlier
jt^hcations said spending rises would be limited to 1 per
cent over the next three years but no separate
breakdowns had been set

Peel profits exceed expectations

PEEL HOTELS PLC yesterday reported its first set of
results for the year ending 21 February 1999. The
company's pre-tax profit of £754^64 exceeded forecasts
that had been made by broker Peel Hunt “As they’re first
results we can only compare them with our expectations.
They’ve been exceeded so we're very pleased," said Peel
Hunt broker Peter Joseph.

British Telecom

THE SCALE on the graph of British Telecom’s share price
published in the Business Review section yesterday was
incorrect We apologise for any confusion caused.

Daimler
fined for
blocking
foreign
buyers

THE EUROPEAN Commission
yesterday said it plans to fine
DaimlerChrysler after finding
that the workfs fifth biggest car-
maker refused to sell cars to
customers who crossed Euro-
pean borders seeking lower
prices.

A two-year inquiry by the
European Union’s executive
agency found evidence that
DaimlerChrysler dealers in
Spain, Belgium, the Nether-
lands and Germany broke EU
antitrust rules by refusing to
sell to foreigners between 1985
and 1996, said Stefan Rating, an
EU spokesman.

“We. have evidence of
circulars sent to dealers
encouraging them not to sell to
foreigners,” Mr Rating said,
adding that the commission
opened a legal proceeding this
month against Daimler-
Chrysler by sending the
company a formal list of its
complaints.

The commission fined Volk-
swagen, Europe's largest car-
maker; 102 million euros
($ll0mj last year; after finding
that its Italian dealers refused
to sell cars to Germans and
Austrians.

Mr Rating said Daimler-
Chrysler’s offenses are “rough
ly” as serious as Volkswagen’s
while “more countries are in-
volved'', suggesting Daimler
could face higher fines.

Car prices vary widely within
the EU because of tax differ-
ences and currency fluctua-
tions, which means people
often travel to other countries
to get lower prices.

Hie commission can fine
companies a maximum of 10
per cent of their annual sales
for antitrust violations, al-
though it has never fined the
maximum.

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carries a great deal of oppor-
tunities.” Indeed one name
that popped up yesterday to
add to the familiar list of sus-
pects was Mike Shapiro, a
senior vice-president of Chase
Manhattan who was seen by
many as that organisation's
heir apparent but has just
been passed over for chief ex-
ecutive by William Harrison.

Preliminary soundings yes-
terday suggested that institu-

tional investors are ready to
give Barclays the benefit of the
doubt, Jim Cox at Schroders
said there are times when a
deal is the answer but this is
not one of them: *Td quite like
them to get on and run the
business. They are just going
to have to get on and find a
chief executive. People who
think deals are the answer to
everyone's problem are daft.”

David Erskine at Standard

Life agreed: “I am disappoin-
ted that Mike 0”Neill is not
coming because he had the
right pedigree. I think the
board acted very well the last
time when Martin Taylor left
and will act very well again.”

In the eyes of many there is
no doubt that Barclays is a far
steadier ship than it was when
Mr Taylor left in November.
This is a testimony to the lead-
ership skills that Sir Peter ac-

quired during his days as a
Treasury mandarin. But some
observers are less sanguine.
One said yesterday: “People
forget that anyone who is
sounded out for the job will feel
that they are automatically
seen as second best to Mike
O'Neill. Tt is also very difficult
to find someone of calibre who
is not already locked in."

If Sir Peter comes up with
the right chief executive as

quickly as he found Mr O'Neill
then all well and good.

But if the search drags on
and it becomes evident that the
bank is being hampered by not
having a chief executive in
place when the banking world
is experiencing a major up-
heaval, shareholders might
start getting restless. It is at
this point that the blandish-
ments of Sir George become
less easy to resist.

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Blue chips take
a breather in
hectic trading

BLUE CHIPS, after stretching
toyet another peak, paused for
breath although shares on the
stock market undercard took
up the running.

It was another hectic day
with rumours of corporate
activity continuing to create
excitement In often squeezy
conditions, some relatively
modest deals had a dramatic
impact on prices.

Footsie hit a 6,539.9 trading
high, closing 19.5 down at
6,493.6. But the mid-cap index
ended 45J. higher at 5,637.5,
still more than 300 below its
peak, and the small cap index
rose 15.3 to 2,443.9, nearly 350
from its high. Turnover was a
beayy 1.3 billion shares.

Much of the takeover spec-
ulation was outside the
charmed Footsie circle. Lon-
don International, the con-
dom maker that is involved in
long-running bid talks, im-
proved 15.5p to 167.5p in a
sudden flurry of trading.

A US group is widely ex-
pected to be the predatoc In
January London Internation-
al an old takeover favourite,
said it had received a “pre-

Market

Report

Derek

Pain

ELECTRONIC Fundraising,
one of the binge Ofex
share market's best
performers, is on its way to
Nasdaq and, surprisingly,
the Bermuda Stock
Exchange. Negotiations for
the share listings “are at
an advanced stage”, said
chairman David Vanrenen.
The company, which is
involved in marketing
lottery games on the
Internet, suffered a
£901,000 loss in the three
months ended March. The
shares fell 5p to 325p,
capitalising the group at
£21xn.

liminary unsolicited proposal”.
The market was convinced a
statement could appear today.
But the company said; “An
imminent announcement is
not anticipated."

Others to capture the spec-
ulators' attention included
Redrew, the builder, up i4J5p
to 238.5p, and Rank, the
leisure group. I5p higher at
249.5p.

Polypipe, the building ma-
terials group, actually en-
countered real bid activity.
The shares jumped 36.5p to
I93.5p after it said talks were
on and Greycoat, the proper-
ty group, rose I9p to 234^p as
it countered the Delaneey Es-
tates strike by offering itself to
the highest bidder.

There was more excite-
ment on the banking pitch.
Barclays ended 25p higher at
l,944p and rumoured bidder
Royal Bank of Scotland rose
19p to 1.444p. But Halifax,
selling its estate agency chain,
fell 3fip to 855-5p. An upbeat
trading statement and an ex-
pression of interest in the Hal-
ifax outlets lifted Countrywide
Assured ll.op to I555p.

Portsmouth & Sunder-
land Newspapers • firmed
37.5p to l,787,5p as hostile
stalker Johnston Press in-
creased its interest to 1735 per
cent

St James Place, the life in-
sura; was busfly traded, efimb-
ing 32p at one time on

expectations that the Pru-
dential Corporation, following
the M&G takeover; will bid But
the gain was dipped to I7.5p
at 297.5p as the parties in-
volved poured cold water on
the theory.

Burmah, the chemical
group, had an eventful session.
The shares were at one time
riding 112p higher they dosed
up93patl,034p. The share per-
formance, not surprising^, fu-
elled rumours of bid activity.
But the spark for the surge was
probably two institutions
charging in the market for
stock and encouraging other
buyers to take an interest.

Paper and packaging con-
tinued to benefit from the
Scapa deal, with David S
Smith gaining lOp to 133p and
Aijo Wiggins Appleton mov-
ing ahead Sap to I71ap.

British Steel was back in
demand. The shares rose
10.25p to I49.75p with talk of an-
alysts upgradings. CSFB was
thought to have repeated its
buy advice on expectations of
industry get-togethers. The
shares have fallen from 172p
in the past year as trading
prospects deteriorated. BS is
expected to have suffered a
loss approaching ElOOm in the
year ended last month.

BSkyB. the satellite broad-
caster still smarting from its
Manchester United red card,
was switched on fay Investec
Henderson Crosthwaite OHO.
The shares jumped I8p to
559.5p after analyst Mathew
Horsman lifted his target price
to 630p from 580p.

The group's joint Internet
service. Open, has prompted
the IHC upgrade. Open deliv-
ers such treats as electronic
home shopping and banking.
Its base valuation is put at
£L4bn, worth 27p to BSkyB and
about 7p to the other major
partner BT, unchanged at
l,075p. HSBC and Japan's
Matsushita also have interests
in Open. IHC is holding its
BSkyB profit forecasts at
£i30m for this year and El 83m
tor next

Trying to spot the Bufiett

SHARE SPOTLIGHT

share price, pence

target was another factor be-
hind some of the blue chip
gains. Warren Buffett the leg-
endary US investor has said he
is near to declaring a 3 percent
stake in a British group.

British Airways, up £L5p to
520.5p, is the new choice al-
though Cadbury Schweppes
remained in favour, firming
18.5p to 933p. Allied Domecq.
up I8.5p at 485.5p, emerged as
an outside runner. So did Lad-
broke, the betting and hotel
chain, with a 5.5p canter to
286.5p.

Imperial Chemical In-
dustries was the best per-
forming blue chip. The sage of
Omaha could have been a fac-
tor but reports that it was at
last near to clinching a major
assets sale was probably the
major influence behind a 473p
jump to 635.op. Id's disposal
programme has so far caused
dismay with the industrial
group foiling to deliver the
sales the market anticipated.

Airtours was little changed
at501p and rival Thomson was
a shade firmer at 177.5p. West-
LB Panmure rates the shares.
There is also continuing spec-

AMJ J ASOND J FMA

CAMBRIDGE MINERAL
Resources is to accelerate
its diamond exploration in
Ireland's County Donegal,
by using airborne
surveys.

The results so far from
the two-year hunt have-
prompted tbe company;
after evaluation by
independent geological
consultants, to move to
the second stage of its
programme, which has so
far cost £250.000.

CMR shares held at 8p:
they have been 18.25p and
were down to 5.5p earlier
this year.

ulation that Airtours could
barge into the First Choice/
Swiss merger First Choice
rose 3p to 177p.

Eurotunnel gained S-5p to
99p as tbe struggling group
emerged as a telephony play.
The Anglo-French operation is
using the cross-channel tun-
nel’s infrastructure to run a
telecoms network and the ser-
vice between London and
Paris made up 70 per cent of
last year’s £8.9m sales.

London Pacific, the latest
Internet play, jumped l I4p to
5075p. a two-day gain of 288p.
Pitat Technologies, on its
broadcast systems sale, added
a further I5p to 62.5pand tex-
tile smuggler Dawson Inter-
national knitted a 4p gain to
2lp, seemingly on the back of
buying by Guinness Peat, one
of the market's more aggres-
sive investors.

Preston North End. the
football club, fell 15p to 330p;
it raised £60,000. placing
shares at 328p.

BATM Advanced Com-
munications, which has
climbed from I45p to 483p in 12
months, lost a little of its exu-
berance, foiling 195p to 463.5p.
Figures are due later this
month and the company said
it intends to move to a hill list-
ing from AIM.

SEAQ VOLUME: 13bn
SEAQ TRADES: 89,023
GILTS INDEX: 114.12 -O.0T

THE INDEPENDENT,

Thursday 15 April 1999 ;

Failed takeover is set
to catalyse chemicals

By Francesco Guerrera

CITY ANALYSTS yesterday pre-
dicted that the aborted £1.5bn
takeover of the UK speciality
chemicals group Laporte by its
Swiss rival Clariant would spark
a wave of consolidation among
undervalued British chemical
groups.

The Clariant/Laporte deal
foundered on Tuesday after
strong opposition from HoechsL
the German life sciences giant
which owns a 45 per cent stake
in the Swiss group.

However, industry experts
believe that the talks lietween
the two companies highlighted
the hidden value of several
British chemical producers and
could herald a series of cross-
border mergers.

A number of cash-rich Euro-
pean and US chemical groups
are thought to be looking at
their British rivals in a bid to ex-
ploit the recent slump in share
prices across the UK sector. Al-
bright & Wilson, a medium-sized
chemical group, is already at the
centre of a bid battle between
Albemarle of the US and Rhodia
of France, which could come to
a head in the next few weeks.

ICI, the UK's largest pro-
ducer. is thought to be dose to
the sale of over $2.8bn worth of
assets to Huntsman of the US,
as part of its transformation
into a fine chemicals company
Moreover, companies such as
PPG of the US and the German
groups SKVV Trostberg,
Degussa-Huels. Bayer and
BASF are considered as poten-
tial bidders for groups with a
good asset base and promising

CHEMICALS: AT A GLANCE

1999

Company

P/E ratio*

Net yield %

Albright 6 Wilson

15.4

4:B

BOC

18.8

3.7

BTP

18.9

3;7- .. \

Burmah Castrol

15.5

4.7

Croda

15.7

4.6 ;

Hickson

9.6

ICI

26.2

5.8

Laporte

14.7

4.6

3.4 ;•

Yule Catto

• Sutherlands forecast

1 1.3

FTSE All Share

Chemical Sector

growth prospects, such as La-
porte. BTP and Yule Catto.

•Tt doesn't take a rocket sci-
entist to see all those companies
are flirting and that will proba-
bly translate into mergers soon-
er rather than la tec" one fund
manager said

The key driver for the latest
bout of merger fever is the low
valuation of a number of UK pro-
ducers. Chemical companies'
earnings have been tot hard by
a combination of the strong
pound slowing demand in the
crisis-ridden Far East and a
cyclical downturn in the indus-
try. This triple whammy has
been compounded by the mar-

ket's dislik e for small and medi-
um cap stocks, which make up
a large portion of the chemical
sector. These troubles de-
pressed investors' sentiment
leading the UK chemical sector
index to underperform the mar-
ket by around 40 per cent over
the past eight months.

The low ratings of many UK
companies contrast with their
good growth prospects. Martin
Evans, head of research at the
stockbroker Sutherlands, be-
lieves that the sector has been
oversold

“The fundamentals of many
of these companies are very
good The market has over re-

acted and die sector has been
pinrked down quite savagely
leaving some companies on
some ridiculous price earn-
ings/ratios,'’ he said.

Mr Evans and others point
put that companies such as La-
porte and BTP are well
positioned to take advantage of
an upturn in demand. Their key
selling point is that they have a
strong position in speciality
chemicals and have reduced
their exposure to commodity
chemicals.

Speciality chemicals are high-

margin, low-volume products,
largely used in high-technology
industries such as pharmaceu-
ticals and electronics. Unlike
the commodity chemicals sup-
plied to oil and exploration com-
panies, speciality products. are
cushioned from die industry cy-
cles because they are usually
based on long-term contracts
with customers. Speciality
chemicals are the Holy GraH of
the modem chemical industry

to buy their UK rivals in an ef-
fort to expand in those areas.

As one analyst said: ‘Many
UKcompanieshave a significant
proportion of earnings in those
high-growth businesses. Their
attraction is that they are feiity
small and affordable and could
become chewabte chunks for an
overseas producer: ”

Given the prospect of activi-
ty and the likelihood of a turn-
around in trading conditions,
this is a good time to buy UK
chemical stocks, especially La-
porte, BTP and Yale Catto,
which are all trading at chunky
discounts to the market

Greycoat shares soar in bid battle

SHARES OF property group
Greycoat soared yesterday on
news of a 29 per cent increase
in net asset value to 283p per
share, helping the company in
its fight against a £218m
takeover attempt by- rival
Delaneey Estates, controlled by
George Soros.

Greycoat shares closed up
10.9 per cent at 234.5p as the
managing director, Peter
Thornton, again rejected tbe
Delaneey paper bid of 194p per
share as "derisory".

Mr Thornton yesterday
officially invited higher bids for
Greycoat, which has a one-

third stake in the NatWest
Tbwer in the City, after con-
firming on the record that the
business was up for sale.

However, he stressed that
the decision had been planned,
irrespective of the Delaneey
bid.

Speculation persists that
Delaneey may make a higher
bid. but the favourites to mount
a counter bid for Greycoat
include rival property groups
Hammerson and Land Securi-
ties. or a bidder from over-
seas.

The sale process is being
arranged by NM Rothschild.

with tenders invited by 19 May.

“We knew when we started
our development cycle in 1994
that we'd see increases in this
period,” said Mr Thornton.

■'We started discussions with
our shareholders last Decem-
ber and decided the logical
time for a sale would be after

our surpluses were announced
“Had Delaneey spoken to
us they might have gleaned this
process was going on, rather
than spending a large amount
of shareholders' money in
launching an aggressive bid."

Analysts said it now looked
increasingly unlikely that

Delaneey would win the bidtong
for the company.

Several analysts had ex-,
pected to see Greycoat’s net
asset value rise, but by a small-
er margin.

Ray Jones, a property ana-
lyst at Co mm erzbank, said:
“The NAV is veiy good, well
above most people’s forecasts."

Floris van Djjkum. a prop-
erty analyst at Morgan Stanley,
added- “Whether Delaneey win
the company or not, they’re
going to look very smart be-
cause of the 30 per cent gain
theyTl make on their invest-
ment in Greycoat”

numbers
in BAA
airports

hit record J

By Fhiup Thornton
‘P-ansport Correspondent

A RECORD .112.5 million
passengers passed through
the seven airports owned by
BAA. in the year to March,
according to figures published
yesterday-

Stahsted was the group’s
fastest growing airport with a
35 per cent surge in passenger
numbers to. 7.4 million.

This represented an in-
crease of J.9 million, passen-
gers, which was only just
behind the extra. 22 million at
Gatwick and' 2.9 million at
Heathrow.

“In thepastStansted was so
small that even 35.4 per cent
growth woifid have had little
impact on BAA's figures,” the ^
company noted fir?

“Stans ted is now firmly es-~ ?
tabJisbedasam^orforceinthe
London airports system.”

In March the Essex-based
airport handled. 6444W0 pas-.,
sengers, 57.8 per cent more
than the same month in 1998.

The airport has benefited
■ from tbe scarcity of slots and
hi gh er handling and landing
charges at Gatwick and.
Heathrow.

It has also attracted budget
airlines such as British Air-
way’s Go and Ityanain -

The success made up fora
5 per cent fall in passengers
passing through Aberdeen in
March, which BAA said was
due to a fafl in pre-Easter busi-
ness traffic and “an uncertain
ofl market”. Over the 12
months if grew just 0.5 per cent

Overall BAA's seven air-
ports, which also include Ab-
erdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow
and Southampton achieved a
7.6 per cent annual rise.

European scheduled traffic
grew by 9.2 per cent, with
routes to the Irish RepuT'c
seeing the fastest growth rate
of 13 percent

New capacity and competi-
tive airfares boosted the North
American market by 9.7 per
cent

But the impact of the slump
in South-east Asia and Japan
held back growth of other
long-haul services to 6.3 per
cent.

r -

Rent trouble PEOPLE AND
at LTCM BUSINESS

LONG-TERM Capital Manage-
ment iLTCMi. the hedge fond
whose near-collapse almost
caused a global meltdown last
year, is being sued by its
landlord for $2. 7m in back
rent

The stun claimed by Pinna-
cle Corporation, which has itself
gone bust may appear piddling
in comparison with LTCM's
former size - it controlled
$125bn before last year’s crisis
- but it has managed to rattle
the hedge fond.

Lawyers for LTCM said they
had no intention of vacating the
disputed offices in Greenwich,
Connecticut, despite Pinna-
cle’s claims that it owes two
years’ rent.

James Rickards, general
counsel for LTCM. said: “This
is a publicity stunt and a de-
laying tactic by a bankrupt
landlord."

Last September a group of
14 banks led by Goldman Sachs
and Merrill Lynch pumped

BY JOHN
WILLCOCK

$3.6bn into LTCM to rescue it
from collapse. Hopefully they
won't be called on again.

Arms party

THE BELGIAN who was ap-
pointed chief executive of Vick-
ers last year, Paul Buysse
(pronounced “bursar"). Had a
reception at the Belgian em-
bassy thrown in his honour on
Wednesday night

The glittering occasion at-
tracted many of the biggest
players in the British arms
industry.

The party was in recognition
of the honours Mr Buysse has
received both here and in Bel-
gium. When he arrived at Vick-
ers last year he sported the
Belgian title “Chevalier". A few

months later the Belgian gov-
ernment promoted him to a foil
“Baron”. Then, in October; the
Brits got into the act and
awarded him an honorary
CBE.

The Belgian ambassador.
Lode Willens, had quite a
guest list on Wednesday - din-
ers included the Chief of the De-
fence Staff, General Sir
Charles and Lady Guthrie; Sir
John Gray, the former UK am-
bassador to Brussels; and Sir
Colin Chandler, the chairman
of Vickers and former bead of
defence sales during Margaret
Thatcher’s government

The party also boasted a
number of Victors’ City advis-
ers, including Peter Mein-
ertzhagen. chairman of Hoare
Govett and Marcus Agius of
Lazards.

Rugby fever

RUGBY WAS in die air the night
thatHelphire Group Pic won the
“Pic of the Year" award this
week. The top team from the
compaqy which qjerialises rare-
placemerl vehicles for clients in-
volved in accidents, was out in
force for the recent ceremony at
the Grosvenor House Hotel in
London.

Mark Jackson, the deputy
chief executive and founder of
HeJphire, was joined try John
Mmnford, corporate finance di-
rector at WHUains de Broe, Hel-
phire's brokers.

Once tbe trophy had been
presented, rugby madness took
hold and Mr Mumford tried to
“pass" the award to rugby-mad
Mr Jackson - who failed to catch
it Tbe trophy suffered somewhat
as a result Maybe Helphire
should start a service for re-
placement awards.-

Difficult deals

TALKING OF awards, Jon
Moulton, that stalwart of the

venture capital industry, col-
lected the “Equity Provider of
the Year” award at Tuesday’s
Acquisitions Monthly bash at
the Cafe Royal on behalf of his
latest enterprise. Alchemy
Partners.

Before co-founding Alchemy
a private equity boutique, in
January 1997, Mr Moulton
started off at Citicorp Venture
Capital, moving to Schroders in
the late 1980s and then Apax
Partners.

Alchemy completed 23

it second in the league talJe
behind 3i.

Mr Moulton, a chess fanat-
ic in his spare time, is known in
the Square Mile as the king of
the public-to-private deal at
the moment

His boutique took Ushers,
the Tbowbridge brewers, pri-
vate and recently backed the
unsuccessful management
buyout offer ofVaux breweries.

As a spokesman for Alchemy
said.' “They specialise mdfficult
deals.”

E^mait j.toiUcocktaindepen-
aenLco.uk

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

Country

1 month 3monBi

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Euro
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Ireland
Irafy
Japan
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands 3.2937

New Zealand 2.9743

Norway 12.4S4
Portugal 299.65
Saudi Arabia 6.0445
Singapore 2.7268
South Africa 9.7974
Spain 248.69
Sweden 1 3.336
Switzerland 2 3978
US 1.6118

1.0000
2.5340
20.56?
60.294
2.4 04 7
11.098
1.4946
8.3868
9.804
2.9231
484.6*
12.490
1.1771
2894.0
191.64
6.1247
15.332

2.5332

20.554

60.152

2.4032

11.077

8.8659

9.781

2.9162

486.17

12.486

1.1743

2887.2

190.78

6.2560

3J?B60

2,9733

12.467

29894

6.0450

2.7257

9.8636

248.10

13.308

2.3887

2.5326
20.540
59.901
2.4003
1 1 .036

8.8289

9.740

2.9041

489.31

12.489

1.1694

28752

189.19

6.4584

3J2723

2.9730

12489

297.70

6-0516

2.7251

10.0080

247.07

13.257

2.3724

Defer

SP*

0.6204
1.5722
12.761
37.409
1.4920
6.8860
0.9273
5.5137
6.0826
1.8136
300.69
7.7495
0.7303
J 795.6

118.90
3.8001
9.5125
2.0436

0,5419

7.7268

185.91
3.7503
1.6918
6.0788
154.30
8.2740
1.4877
1.0000

1 monte 3 month

0.6207

1.5723

12.758

37.336

1.4917

6.6754

5.5030

6.0708

1.8101

301.76

7.7497

1.3720

1792.1

118.41

3.8831

2.0396

1.8455

7.7383

IS5.55

3.7521
1.6919
6.1260
154.00
8.2603
' 1.4827

0.6209

1.5725

12.753

37.193

1.4908

8.8539

5.4819

6.0475
1.8031
303.81
7.7545
1.3773
1 785.2
117.47
4 0101

2.031 B
1.8480
7.7543
184 84
3.7575
1 6920
6.2140
15341
8 2315
1.4731

Emo

0.6691

1.6954

13.7603

60.340

1.6089

7.6255

1.0000

5.9457

6.5596
1 .9552
524.25
83566
0.7876
1936.27
128.216
4.0978
10.2578
2.2037
1.9899
8.3322
200.48
4.0441
1.6244
6 5550
166.386
8.9223
1.6043
09273

INTEREST RATES

Discount

5«W>

RepoiAvei

2 90%

Base 5.25%

Demnart

Japan

Ecrapun Central Bank

Discount

2 75' ..

Discount

0 50%

O. N Marginals 50%

Switzwfend

O N Facility 1 50?»

Prime

7 75%

DtSCOUrtf

O 50%

Repo 2.50^

Discount

4.50%

Lomljard

2 8e*-„

Canada

Fed Funds

4.75*5.

Prime 6 50%

SvbUbu

OTHER SPOT RATES

Argentina

Brazil

Oilna

Oech Rep

Egypt

Gnana

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Kuwait

Nigeria

Stmfiag

Mar

Country

SieitaB

Dollar

1.6077

0.9975

Oman

0.6125,

0.3800

2.6836

1.6650

Pakistan

81.667

13.344

8.2794

Ptnllipinn

61.488

38.150

56.480

35.043

Poland

6.5938

3.9670

5.5004

3.4127

Qatar

5.8660

3.6395

3929.0

2437.8

Russia

41824.9

25950.0

378.55

234.87

South Korea

1958.3

1215.00

68.902

42.750

Taiwan

53110

32.932

13869.1

06 .5.0

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60.56 ^

37.575

0.4932

0.3C60

Turkey

612006

379715

140.14

86.950

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5.9200

3.6731

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4 63

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2 56

0.05

2 61

0.00 2.83 -0 01

3.44 0.00

4.08 -0.0 1

Canada

4.42

-0 04

457

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4.74-0.01

4.93 0.01

Euro

2.64

-0.01

2.71

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3 27 0 01

3 82 -0.01

France

2.64

-0 01

2 77

0.49 2.71 -0.02

3.27-0 01

Germany

2.64

-0 01

2 71

-0 01 2.74 0.00

3.13 001

Italy

2 58

0 02

268

0 00 2.85 -0 01

3 37 0.01

Japan

0.0a

000

0.14

0.00 0.25 0.00

0 81 0 01

1 65 0.03

NTands

2.64

-0.01

2.71

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3.28 0 01

397 O.Oi

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260

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3 33 0.01

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2.92

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500700

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5 22 5 28 5.19 515 5.225.28

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5-27 5 21

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2.63 2 63 2.63 2 63

2.64 2 64 2,85 2.65 2.712.71

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LIFFE FINANCIAL FUTURES

Contract

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Nigh

Lcng Git

Jun- 99

11788

118 15

5 Yr Gn

Jun-99

108 18

German Bund

Jun- 99

1 15.82

kalian Bond

Jun-99

114.73

11488

Japan Govt Sd

Jun-99

I3J.33

133.38

3 Men Sterling

Jun-99

94.85

94 83

Sep- 99

94 87

94.90

3 MOi Eunbor

Apr-99

97 38

97.38

Jun-99

97.39

37.39

Sep- 99

97 40

97 41

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Jun-99

99.81

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Apr-99

98 98

98 99

Sep-99

99 90

98 92

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Apr-99

97 38

JUh-99

97.39

97.38

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97 40

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6534 00

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98.87 4940.00 70129.00

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The Hillsborough memorial at Anfield commemorates those who died 10 years ago. The Taylor Report called for a ‘fullest reassessment* of football in Britain -yet the sport is still in turmoil Mercury

\ game in search of its soul

HIS final report on the Hillsbor-
,gh disaster, which had been
mining in its criticism of the
ort's leadership from the Football
:sociation down, Lord Justice
ylor called for “the fullest re-
* essment of polity for the game".
In the wake of this the Football
ague produced a proposal for
.wer sharing with the FA. The FA
■sponded in June 1991 with its
9-page “Blueprint for the Fhture
Football" This did not just reject
- League's approach, it also an as-
i a ted the organisation by cream -
g off the top clubs to create the FA
■ernier League. The aim, the
ilueprint" admitted, was to
stablish the FA as Government of
■e game in England".

The document added that the FA’s
rime objective" was “establishing
e England team atthe apex of the
ramid of playing excellence”. To
iat end the FA Premier League,
mch was to be “governed by a com-
■ittee of the FA" and would consist
18 clubs, was bang created to fbre-
uall a “break away league [which]
/ould be driven by commercial
on si derations" rather than “a de-
ire to elevate the England team".
Admirable sentiments, but in the
gbt of Premiership dubs now
rasping every penny they can, of
iubs threatening to withdraw their
layers from England's forthcoming
iendly in Hungary and the FA's
-raven decision to field a third-
tring Under-20 side in this month’s
*orid Championships in Nigeria
fhus enabling Matthew Upson to
■lay for Arsenal reserves and Joe
'ole for West Ham’s youth team),
iey are also laughable.

When the Premier League was
j ns traded the amateurs of the FA
ere utterly outmanoeuvred by the
usinessmen of the Premier
eague. The FA has no input on
edsion'making by the Premier
.eague, which is run by the 20 dub
hammen and a chief executive and
hairman appointed by them land,
i the case of Peter Leaver and Sir
ohn Quinton, recently deposed by
.iem, too). The League has no

plans to reduce to 20 dubs though
Arsenal and Manchester United,
with an eye on their own European
ambitions not the Englan d team,
have pushed for it Crucially, the FA
has no input on how the Premier
League's wealth is distributed.

The consequences we reviewed
yesterday. The glamorous Premier
League is bathed in sunlight, with
the impoverished Football League
cast into its shadow. An atmosphere
exists of rampant commercialism
which prices out bedrock support-
ers while enriching directors. There
is a total disregard for the mass of
park players.

The future, if this continues
unchecked, is worrying. Already
the gulf between Ihe Premier and
Football League has grown to the
extent that it can only be bridged by
a rich benefactor, such as Jack
Whlker or Mohamed AI Flayed. A sim-
ilar gap has developed within the
Premiership itself. Even if well-run
and managed dubs such as Chari-
ton survive in the Premier League
they wiU nevo* challenge for the title.
The dream that sustains supporters
of lesser dubs Is in danger of
becoming a fantasy.

The only solution is some form of
regulation, either internal, as with

The post-Hillsborough plan for the national game has failed to
create a brighter, safer future for football. That will only occur
if the Premiership clubs' dominance is curbed. By Glenn Moore

the Press Complaints Commission
in the newspaper industry, or
external, through a Government-ap-
pointed ombudsman or watchdog
such as Oftel, which regulates the
telecommunications industry.

The sport would prefer self-
regulation and in recent years, the
FA has done much to suggest it could
regain a measure of control over the
game. On the pitch, Howard Wilkin-
son's reforms as technical director
should benefit the development of
young players and the national
team: off it the FA has become pro-
active rather than reactive.

Though still hindered by on un-
wieldy bureaucracy it is attempting
to streamline its structure (the pro-
posals are “going through the vari-
ous committees”, a spokesman said
with unintentional irony). It is also
attempting to give some form of
moral lead to the game. This is eas-
ier now that Keith Wiseman, who
made a fortune through his share-
holding in Southampton, is no longer

FA chairman, but it is still inevitably
compromised by the success, com-
mercially speaking, of its merchan-
dising arm.

However, the FA’s power is lim-
ited. Most crucially it does not con-
trol the Premier League. Thus any
form of self-regulation must include
the Premiership chairmen. Unfor-
tunately, while most senior FA fig-
ures appear to have the broader
interests of the game at heart this
cannot be said of some dub chair-
men, though there are exceptions.

The pics, by definition, have to put
their shareholders’ interests < that is,
profits) above all else and Aston
Villa's refusal to pay Brighton the
compensation fee agreed for their
poaching of Gareth Barry tit had to
be deducted from their television
money at source) is typical of many
Premiership dubs' view on lower
division teams. As long ago as 1985
Martin Edwards, the chairman of
Manchester United, said: “The
smaller clubs are bleeding the game

dry. For the sake of the game, they
should be put to sleep."

The pathetic hand-outs to the
Football Thist from their TV income
(less than five per cent of the £170m
each year) underlines the self-
interest that pervades the Pre-
miership. Recently they were unable
even to agree among themselves on
opening a chain of merchandise
stores across Europe. The argu-
ments centred on the sharing out of
the profits. Sir John Quinton's part-
ing remark after his resignation
was that the chairmen should stop
bickering among themselves.

While four chibs can be relegated
from Italy’s 18-team Serie A, many
in the Premiership want to reduce
the link with the Fbotball League to
two -up, two-do wh. Some would pre-
fer to end the practice altogether, so
protecting their investments. J

Some of the new millionaires
football has created claim they did
not seek a fortune. Peter Johnson,
the chairman ofEverton, told the au-

thor David Conn, in his excellent
analysis of the game. The Football
Business, U I didn't know I would
make money. It was an accident"
Johnson still seeks to take a profit
in the region of £50m from his £20m
investment; allowing the club to
keep his windfall appears not to have
occurred to him.

So, if the power brokers of the
game cannot be trusted to regulate
themselves, the Government will
have to step in. The political will,
it seems, may exist especially
with the Government so closely
connected to the World Cup 2006
bid. Charlie Whelan, Gordon
Brown's confidant wrote in the
Observer recently: “Football is
running out of lime to organise it-
self. This Government [is] not
about to sit back and watch the
shambles at the top of our nation-
al game much longer.”

David Mellor's Football Task
Force, after dealing with a series of
soft issues, is now investigating the
financial side of the game from
ticket prices to share flotations.
The prospect of establishing a reg-
ulatory body will be among the sub-
jects reviewed in the report, which
is due out in about eight weeks' time
While Government intervention

Long haul to implement Taylor Report

WHEN LORD Justice Taylor’s in-
terim report into the Hillsborough
disaster was published in August
1989 it spoke volumes about the
tragedy that had been waiting to hap-
pen prior to the events of 15 April
that cost 96 people their lives.

It concluded that the country's
football grounds were potential
death traps. Hillsborough had been
dangerous, but fin- stadiums at the
time it was still one of the best The
lack of signposts that had con-
tributed to thousands of people
overloading fenced pens when there
were empty terraces a few metres
away was awful but common.

BY NICK HARRIS

The interim report made 28 rec-
ommendations to be onpfemenled im-
mediately. mdudmg maximum crowd
levels for pens (there were often
none); that each dub should have a
doctor on hand at each match; that
crush barriers should be checked for
rust; that turnstiles should work
that there should be written agree-
ment between police and clubs set-
ting out responsibilities.

That these and the others were
not already in place was bad enough,
but the final report, published in Jan-
uary 1990, was more damning stilL

“The picture revealed is of a gen-
eral malaise or blight over the game
due to a number of factors," Taylor
wrote. "Principally these are: old
grounds, poor facilities, hooliganism,
excessive drinking and poor leader-
ship "He added: “The safe^ and com-
fort of those on the terraces has not
been regarded as a priority." The con-
clusion was stork. “This inhospitable
scene tends to breed bad manners
and poor behaviour The atmosphere
does not encourage pride in the
ground or consideration for others."

Taylor proposed, among other
things, that all-seater stadiums be in-
troduced in the top two divisions by

1994-95, that grounds had meaning-
ful safety certificates, and that there
be better communication between
police and clubs. Hie cost of the
changes was put at £l30m.

Ten years on, around f560m has
been^entonTbytor-refatedprcgeds.
The Football Trust - given the remit
to implement the Taylor report and
funded by pools’ companies and foot-
ball sources- has contributed £160ra
of that The rest has come from the
.chibs and the Trust feels that Taylor
has been implemented effectively by
most dubs in the Premier League
and Nationwide First Division Today
the Triist win announce that the

grant cefling available to Second and
Third Division clubs for improve-
ments will rise to £2m from £l.7m.

But while ll new stadiums have
been built by dubs from Mfflwall to
Middlesbrough, and while policing
and stewardmg have become more
effective, there is more to be done.

How many lower division dubs
are struggling to keep up? How

often is the law on offensive language
enforced? How often do you stiUsee
ticket-touting, which was made il-
legal under the Criminal Justice Act’
These might be details, but pre-
Hillsborough so were a lot of other
things, effective signs included.

carries the risk of too much inter-
ference fas well as being forbidden
t?y FTfa. the game’s world governing
body) some form of independent reg-
ulation, along the lines of that
established for the privatised
industries, ought to be possible.
The first task of an “OSnot” would
be to redistribute some of the wealth
being garnered by the Premier
League.

This money - at least 25 per cent
of any TV deal - could be adminis-
tered by the Football TVust, which
is probably the only botfy in the
game genuinely committed - to
improving the sport at aH levels. It
also has close links with Govern-
ment. Tom Pendry, a long-serving
opposition spokesman on sport
when Labour were out of power, is "
its chairman.

OfEbot could then enforce the
strea mlining of the FA and hrin g the
Premier League back under, its
control. If this is impossible, a new!
umbrella body could be established.
Either way supporters should have

a greater say, even to the extent of

assisting them in club buy-outs, as
has happened with good effect at
Bournemouth.

to the meantime there are several
short-term measures the Goveni-
ment could undertake, A windfall tax
on the men who have madp fortunes
from toe game, combined with a levy
on football betting, could provide
immediate finanrial help.

A law restricting satellite cover-
age of matches may also be con- .
sidered, although it need not be as
draconian as the one imposed in
Italy to keep Rupert Murdoch out

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Last, but certainly not least, the
Government should reopen the
inquest into the deaths at ffiDsbor- .
ough. There has been a wealth of
new evidence since both Dr Stefan
Popper’s original inquest and
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s
““Sympathetic review. Fbotball can-
not move on until toe families of the
Hillsborough victims, and the
survivors, are able to do so.

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THE INDEPENDENT

Thursday 1$ April 1999

Prichard
restores
the pride

IT IS said that everything goes
in threes, and nowhere could
there be a better illustration
than here, .Ebr various reasons
- form or injury - 1998 was an
unhappy summer for Paul
Prichard, Darren Maddy and
James Whitaker

It is arguable as to whether
their luck has improved much
this year judging by yesterday’s
goings-on. At least the first
two managed to score some
runs, although they would not
have been pleased with their
share, and at least the Leices-
tershire captain, Whitaker is
now ambulant a gain after un-
dergoing a couple of knee op-
erations last yean

In Prichard’s case his con-
tribution, however frustrating
from a personal point of view,
did much to spare Essex’s
blushes and earn them a cou-
ple of bonus points that they
could so easily have missed He
then had the pleasure of seeing
Leicestershire begin the de-
fence of thefr tide with a degree
of uncertainty.

Prichard had miscued an
attempted puD, a horrible-look-
ing shot, when he was a mere
nine runs from what would
have been a very welcome cen-
tury. his first since August 97.
Still it was almost four times his
highest score last yean It was
a deep disappointment to the
crowd and to the man, but at
least there was a more as-
sured air to the former captain
and a certain amount of fluen-
cy as he hammered 14 fours.

Maddy also fell short of a
landmar k, having put a lean
year behind him as he cruised
to a good-Iooldng 46. At that
point the penetrative Mark Hott
jdrew him half forward and
vound enough of a gap to knock

CRICKET

By David Llewellyn

at Chelmsford

Essex 252

Leicestershire 122-4

over his poles. Leicestershire
had already lost Iain Sutcliffe,
who had pecked and scratched
around for precious few runs,
and Maddy 's wicket was quick-
ly followed by that of another big
hope, the prolific Aftab Habib.

Enter Whitaker, who is ap-
proaching his 37th birthday.
His last Championship match
was against Durham in 1997.
after which he underwent op-
erations in December and
again in June last year to repair
his left knee. He does not expect
to play a big part in his coun-
ty's one-day campaign, but he
will have to do something to re-
store Leicestershire's fortunes
in this match.

In fact, by the time Hott had
finished with Leicestershire
Essex had achieved something
of a role reversal. Bottom of the
table they may have been last
year but, until bad light cut pro-
ceedings short with a handful
of overs remaining, they cer-
tainly look to have the upper
hand here.

A lot could now depend on
how Whitaker’s luck goes
today. He struggled a little
with his timing but he man-
aged to do what the younger el-
ements of his team failed
signafly to do: to hang around.
Not only that, but he and an-
other seasoned campaigner,
Paul Nixon, dug in and nicked
and nudged Leicestershire to
within 130 runs of what may
well prove to be an inadequate
Essex first-innings score.

Middlesex prove brittle in the cold

AFTER A wasted first day dur-
ing which just 10 overs were
achieved, although in precise-
ly the same weather The Oval
managed nearly five times as
many, the Lord's season got
under way with some cold and
cautious cricket yesterday.

Kent, who bad chosen to
bowl could perhaps take most
satisfaction from an undistin-
guished day, although having
cut Middlesex back to 194 for 7
they were frustrated by a de-
termined repair job carried out
by top-scorer David Nash and
James Hewitt

Matthew Fleming, Kent's

by John Collis
at Lord’s

Middlesex 254
Kent 21-1

new captain, pen-nutated his
four seam bowlers in short
warming shifts whOe leaving his
spinner Min Patel shivering
until late afternoon.

So delighted was the left-
armer to be given something to
do that he responded by break-
ing the stubborn alliance be-
tween Nash and Hewitt gave
Simon Cook a golden duck on
his first-class debut and com-

pleted a useful spell by trapping
Richard Johnson.

The most impressive of the
quicker men was Kent's moon-
lighting gynaecologist Dr Julian
Thompson, preferred to Martin
McCague for his ability to move
the ball around on the early- sea-
son turf. It was he who ac-
counted for the dangerous
Justin Lange r, a man who
needs to pass 50 merely to
maintain Ids career average.

Although Dean Headley, a
yard fester than anyone else in
the game, bowled with venom,
it was the lateral swerve and
bounce of Thompson that

reaped the richest reward of
four economical wickets -
Langer drove too loosely,
Richard Kettleborough pushed
half heartedly, Paul Weekes
miscued a drive that steepled
into the air and Phil Tufnell
dabbed timorously to point
Kent's replacement for Carl
Hooper this year is the Aus-
tralian Andrew Symonds, born
in Birmingham, who withdrew
from an England A tour so
that he could remain qualified
for the country that suits his ac-
cent. Hired principally as a
big-hitting batsman, his CV
also offers off-spin and the mus-

cular seam bowling that he
employed yesterday. He often
slipped past the bat, but with-
out success.

Apart from the enterprise of
Langer and Nash, and the
lower-order biffing of Hewitt
and Johnson, the Middlesex
hatting had the famil iar hall-
marks of chilly April - a tenta-
tive suspicion of pace and pitch
and uncertainty of timing.

In the evening coda. Cook
was compensated for his brief
innings by first use of the new
ball He is sharp and straight
and Ed Smith’s wicket wall have
helped him sleep better:

Bicknell’s last-wicket fightback Hemp soaks up pressure

AlOTH-WICKET partnership of
59 plus two early wickets in
Gloucestershire’s reply tilted
the balance of this meeting be-
tween two of last season’s
Championship bridesmaids
firmly in favour of the hosts at
the end of an absorbing day’s
play.

When Alex Tudor was ninth
oid for Surrey with the seme at
283, Gloucestershire had every
reason to be pleased with the
situation. But Surrey bat all the
way down, and yesterday’s op-
ponents may not be the last to
flounder at the final obstacle
this year as Gloucestershire did
yesterday with No 11 Martin
Bicknell hitting seven fours in
> an undefeated 49 in tandem
.>?• ' with Ian Salisbury.

-r-Jfc When Gloucestershire bat-
.fv - ted the same pair inflicted fur-
•2 ther wounds, first Bicknell’s
-> outswinger accounting for Kim

i Century
start for
J Sussex

L RICHARD MONTGOMERIE and
-■ Tbby Peirce shared Sussex’s
' - best opening stand for more
y than a year in their opening
?' County Championship match of

t.hp Hrasrm a gains t T .anna chir p
y \- . at Old 'R-affbrd yesterday.

K jg| Sussex had managed only
' one centmy partnership for the
■ . , first wicket since June 1997, but
y , Montgomerie and I^rce put on
136 to launch their newtookside
towards their total of 285 for 5
in 96 overs.

After the Lancashire ground-
staff had scraped ice from the
covers to allow {day to get uixfer
way half an hoar late, Mont-
gomerie, who moved to Sussex
from Northamptonshire in the
winter justified the decision by
his captain, Chris Adams, to bat
by making 62 from 164 halls be-
fore edging Glen Chappie to
Mark Chilton at second slip.

The left-handed Peirce went
on to reach 77 from 204 balls, in-
duding eight fours, before being
caught behind off Peter Martin.
Adams hit his third ball from

by Adam szreter
at The Oval

Surrey

Gloucestershire

342

55-2

Barnett and then Salisbury's
g oogty bamboozling Dominic
Hewson.

In the morning, the notion
that Gloucestershire might toil
for their wickets on a surface
that had behaved impeccably
on a truncated first day seemed
to have been swiftly disabused,
appropriately enough with a
touch of the Harvey Smiths on
Gloucestershire's part

Mark Butcher; impressive
for bis 68 on Tuesday, fell yes-
terday to the first ball he re-
ceived, chopping on to his
stumps after attempting to cut
one from Mike Smith that was
too close to his body.

Ian Ward continued to play

attractively after his captain’s
departure but his new partner;
Jason Ratcliffe, became horri-
bly bogged down. He eventually
was bowled by Ian Harvey,
shouldering arms, having faced
26 balls without scoring

Thereafter things went from
bad to worse for Surrey for a
time. Nadeera Shahid, Ally
Brown and finally Ward all fell
in quick succession. Shahid to
a fine diving catch by Matt
Windows at square leg and
Ward contentiously Ibw, both
victims of Harvey’s weil-dis-
guised slower ball Brown, hav-
ing flicked Smith off his toes for
six at the end of one over, fell
leg before to the first ball of the
bowler's next, departing like
Ward with some reluctance.

At 179 for 5, having started
the day on 124 without loss, Ben
Hollioake and the wicketkeeper
Jonathan Batty now needed to

steady the ship, which they did
to good effect adding 69. in-
cluding two Hollioake sixes,
before a foil delivery from the
off-spinner Michael Ball
dropped on to Hollioake's toes
and he was gone for 49.

Shortly afterwards Batty,
flashing at Smith, was dropped
by Ball at first slip but Gary
Butcher, making his debut lost
his middle stump to the very
next delivery, bowled by Jon
Lewis. Smith, however, was
not finished with Batty, drop-
ping a sharp return catch in his
next over before finding the per-
fect inswinger to beat the bats-
man's forward defensive prod.
When Tudor provided Smith
with his fourth wicket of the day
it looked as though the Glouces-
tershire left-armer had given
his team the edge, but Bicknell
ably assisted by Salisbury,
changed all that

PERHAPS THE pavilion clock
was to blame. Still running an
hour behind (thanks to a ground-
staff oversight), its refusal to ac-
knowledge British Summer
Time seemed appropriately
symbolic as the few huddled
knots of spectators, stoicai as
only cricket nuts can be in the
face of advancing hypothermia,
endured a four-hour wait for
play to begin here yesterday.

The umpires pondered wiiat
to do abouta strip of wet ground
bisecting the bowler’s run-up
area at the Pavilion End. Unlike
the pitch, it had been exposed
to a deluge of rain, hail and sleet
on Tuesday.

The possibility of pegging
down a strip of matting was con-
sidered but rejected. Ulti-
mately. although the official
line was that conditions were
unfit the respective captains
took matters into their own

BY JON CULLEY
at Edgbaston

Warwickshire 126-3
v Northamptonshire

hands and decided to get on
with it regardless.

The muddiest bit coincided
precisely with the bowler's take-
off stride, although it seemed to
be no impediment to Paul Tay-
lor, the Northamptonshire left-
armer, who bowled 14 overs
either side of tea and came
through with all limbs intact He
claimed a wicket when Michael
Powell, opening with Mark
Wagh, gingerly prodded a catch
to short leg and deserved to see
off David Hemp as weft But the
left-hander escaped a chance to
second slip on 13, sliced anoth-
er Taylor bail over the slips on
15 and almost chopped one
onto his stumps on 34.

Even so, it was better to be
batting and a green pitch did
not deter Neil Smith, the new
Warwickshire captain, from
making that choice. With Andy
Moles and Brian Lara gone, aid
a quartet of recognised bats-
men, headed by Nick Knight
unavailable. Smith had to play
wicketkeeper Keith Piper at
least two places above bis sta-
tion at No 5. Jbrtunately Hemp,
riding his luck, came to his cap-
tain's aid.

The delay cost 57 overs.
When play began a swinging
loosener by Devon Malcolm
hit Wagh on the toe and sent
him back to the dressing room,
Ibw to the first delivery. Trevor
Penney succumbed to a Mal-
colm outswinger and Piper to
a bruised finger courtesy of
David EblletL But Hemp, who
hit eight fours, was still there
on 61 at the dose.

•r

toe mart but also M caught be-
hind, for 26, to give Lan-
cashire's debutant seamer.
Mike Smethurst, his first
Championship wicket
Tony Cottey fettfor 46, on bis
debut after leaving Glamor-
gan, but Sussex will resume this
morning well in charge.

X+X

CRICKET SCOREBOARD

PPP Healthcare
County Championship

Warwickshire v Northamptonshire

ms Gs

BIS

Min

.. 0

. 20

.61

145

179

....6

....8

.29

..J

.126

EDGBASTON (Day 1 oM): Ihnikfittin hnc scand 125
for 3 wrtekats against Northamptonshire.

Warwickshire won toss
WARWICKSHIRE - Rrw Innings

M A Wagh Ibw b Malcolm

Mi Powell c Loye b tbylor

P L Hemp not oik

T L Penney c Ripley b Malcolm

tK ) Piper ret ht....„

D R Brown not out -

Extras (102}

local (for 3, 47 were) __

FbH: 1-0, 2-36. 3-S9.

lb bae 'NMK Smith. A F Giles. G Welch, T A Munion, E S
H GldtfiiK.

B owB ng i D E Malcolm 12-1-43-2. J P Taylor 14-5-27-1. G P
Swann 7-4-6-0. D Follett 5-0-30-0. A L Penberthy 9-4-1 B-0.
Umpires; M j Kitchen and A G T Whitehead.

Durham v Worcestershire

RIVERSIDE (Day 2 of 4): Dortutn trail Utorcestarsftlre
by 120 runs with 9 first 4wdngs wickets Id hand.
Durham won loss

WORCESTERSHIRE - Rot Innings

Runs 6s 4s DIs Mia

W P C Weston e Daley b Betts 2 0

P R Pollard Ibw b Brown 14 0

8 6
48 61

V S Sotanki Ibw b Bmcs 4 0 J S 6

D A Leattadale e Daley b Brown 85 0 14 139 179

E J IMtson c Bens b Brown O 0 0 6

’tS J Rhodes c Speight b Harmlson 15 0 1 41

S R Uampla c CoJIingwood b Harm Ison .10 0 9

R K IWngworth c Spdght b Brown 13 0 1 3i

A Sheriyar b Brown 11 0 2 18

j M de la Pena e Speight b Brown 0 0 0

C G Uptmc not out O 0 0

Extras (bl Rj? nb4J - 7

Dxal (52.1 overs) — — — 152

Fall: 1-3. 2-7. 3-33. 4-35. 5-77. 6-82. 7-136. 8-141. 9-145.
Bo w H ng: S J E Brown 15.1-6-25-6, M M Betts 12-2-46-2, J
Wood 12-3-39-0. S I Hatmlson B-2-JO-2, M A Gough 3- 1 -7-
0. P D QMHngwood 2-0-12-0,

DURHAM - Ffm Innings

Russ 6s 4s Bis Min

i J B Lewis not out 18 0 2 34 84

M A Gough Ibw b Sheriyar .0 0 0 7 51

J E Morris not out.....-.- 13 0 1 19 31

Earns (lb!) — - i

*8X01 (for 1, 10 ewral — -32

AIK 1-5.

lb bat: J A Daley. ‘DC Boon. P D CoIJingwood. IM P Speight.
M M Betts. J Wood. S J B Brown, S J Harmlson.

Bowling: A Shenyar 5-0-22-1. J M dr la Pena e-2-7-0. D fl

Leatherette 1 -0-2-0.

Umpires: J C Balderscone and G I Burgess

Essex v Leicestershire

CHELMSFORD (Day 2 at 4): Leicestershire trail Essex

by 130 runs with 6 first -Innings wickets In band.

&se< won (CCS

ESSEX - First Innlogs Oxemlgbt 91-2

First Innings Contd

Runs 6s

BIS

Min

P ) Pncftord c Lewis b Kasprowtct..

219

577

S G Law c Niton b Ormond

I 72

•R C Irjru 0 Lewis

1 •*

A P Gidysor run our

. .0

1 f

S D Peters ftiw b Dakin

tR J Rollins t NI*on b Kasprowic: ..

. .. 3

4 3

A P Cowan t Sutcliffe b Brlmson

M C Hott Ibw b Ormorxl

P M Such rot out

....18

Extras lib 10 w2 nb?3)

. 35

Fan: 1-40. 2-45. 3-144. <1-181.5-187. 6-187

7-193.8-

■204

9-228.

Baorllngt M S Kasprowlcr 28-10-78-3. C C Lewis

27-6-85-

2. J Ormond 18.1-4-39-2. J M Dakin 1 T-3-31

■1.MT Brim-

son 2-1-9-1.

LEICESTERSHIRE - First Innings

Runs 6s

Bis

Min

D l Maddy b Hott

... .46

1 J St-rchife c Rollins o ItoK

. 11

A Habib t Rollins b Itam

. ..3

B F Smith b Cowan

...14

t| J Whitaker not out

*P A Nixon rot out

Extras (Ib4 nb2|...

Fall: 1-36 2-63. 3^3. 4-86.

lb bat: C C Lewis. 1 M Dakin. J Ormcmd. M S hasprowicz. M

T Brimson.

Bowling: M C llott 14.1-7-34-2. A P Cowan 13-3-33-1

. RC

Irani B-2-22-1 . P M 5uth 6-0-29-0.
Umpires: R Julian and P Palmer,

Today’s fixtures m oo U n«*s

stated)

PPP HEALTHCARE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP (day 2 u»
4} Edgbaston : Warwickshire y Northamptonshire
PPP HEALTHCARE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP |&w 3 O'
4) Riverside: Durham v Worcestershire, Chelmsford:
Essen v Leicestershire. Old Tfafford: Lancashire v
Susser. Lord's: Middlesex v Kent. The Poster's Owl:
Surrey v Gloucestershire.

OTHER MATCHES fday 1 Of 3> Fenners: Cambridge Uni-
versity v Somerset (1 1.30J.

Lancashire v Sussex

OLD TRAFFORD (Day 2 of 4): Sussex have scored 285
for 5 wickets against Lancashire.

Susse* to ss

SUSSEX - First Innings

Runs 6s 45 Bis Min

R R Montgomerie c Chiiron t> Cnappte 62

164

194

M T E Peirce c Hegfi b Martin

. ...77

204

264

■C J Adams c Hegg 6 Smettuirsr

. 26

Ml Di Ueriuto Ibw b Schofield

P A Cotrey b WaMilnson

. 46

R K Rao not out

. . ..6

P ) Kirrley nor out

.. .5

Extras |b2 ICO w? nb26| . .. 32

Total (for 5. 96 overs) 285

Fall: »-l 36. 2-174. 3-209. 4-2 33. 5-279.

1b bat: J? 5 C Martm-Jenkins. fS Humphries. M A Robinson,
U B A Rashid

Bowling: P J Martin 22 - 5 - 1 * 8 - 1 . G Chappie 21 - 4 - 61 - 1 . M P
Smerhursr 19 - 1 - 58 -;, V WatMnjc-n 1 7 - 5 - 42 - 1 . C P Schofield
17 - 1 - 72-1

Umpires; N A Mallender and G Sharp

Middlesex v Kent

LORD'S (Day 2 of 4): Kent trail Middlesex by
with 9 Mrse-lnnings wickets In hand.

fvcnf won toss

MIDDLESEX — Rrst Innings Overnight: 16-1
First Innings Coned

Runs Gs 4S

J L Langer c Marsh b Thompson ... .55 0 6
"M R Ramprakasn c Key b Fleming . 12 0 l

R A Kecrieborough c Ward b Thompson 0 0 0
O A £nah b Fleming 16 0 3

P N UUwUes t Fleming b Thompson ..14 0 1
ID C Nasn not our. . .. 62 0 6

J P Hewitt b Patel 25 0 i

R l lohnson Ibw b Patel . .21 0 5

5 i Cook c Walker & Patel 0 0 0

P R Tutndl c Walker b Thompson 5 0 0

Extras (67 l&4 nb201 . 31

Total (95.5 overs) 254

Fall: I S 2-ae. 3-51.4-100, 5-1 IB 6-137. 7-194.
?4f.

Bowling: D w Headley 26-4-7<», i. J 3 Thompson ;
4. M V Fleming 21-9-42-2. A iymonds 1 5-3-40-0,
10-3-21-3

KENT - First Innings

Runs 6s 4s

E T Smi'h ibw b Coov 3 0 0

SWT hey net out 16 0 I

T R ward not out. ... . 1 U 0

Extras i It- 1 1 I

Tbtal (for 1,17 overs) .21

Fall: 1-10

233 runs

Bis Min

138 519
*5 75

4 3

56 63
51 74

131 203
65 71

53 70

1 0
16 15

8-246. 9-

:3.5-S,61-
M M Parei

Bb Min

22 27

58 62

22 34

1b bat: A P Wells. A Symonds. M J Walker. fS A Marsh. 'M V
Fleming. 0 W Headley J B Thompson. M M Patel.

Bonding: 5 J Cook 7-3-1 1-1. R L Johnson 7-3-9-0. J P Hewitt
3-3-0-0.

Umpires: J H Hams and A Clarkson.

Surrey w Gloucestershire

THE OVAL (Day 2 of 4): Gloucestershire trail Surrey by

287 runs with 8 nrst-bialngs wickets la hand.

G/euresrersh/re mm fens

SURREY - First Innings Overnight 124-0

First Innings Cooed

Rons 6s 4s Bis Min

•M A Burehe* t> Smith 68 0 11 149 45?

I J Ward Ibw b Harvey 78 0 12 186 518

J D Ratcliffe b Harvey 0 0 0 26 29

N Shahid c Windows b Harvey 12 0 2 12 10

A D Brown ibw b Smith 11 118 8

0 C Holliodke Ibw b Ball 49 7 6 107 118

0 N Baccy Ibw b Sm-ch 37 0 6 118 141

G P Butcher b Lewis - S 0 1 28 78

A 1 luflot c. Russell b Smith .6 0 1 22 2B

1 D K Salisbury Ibw b AJleyne 17 0 2 55 86

M p Bicknell not out 49 0 7 68 63

Extras <nb6l 6

Tbtal (1 29.2 Attn] 342

Fall: 1-131. 2-1 46. 3-160. 4-171. 5-179. 6-248. 7066. 8-
270. 9-2B3

Bowling: A M Smith 32-9-93-4. J Lewis 32-12-76-1, 1 J Har-
vey 26-10-77-3. M W Alleyne 20.2-6-44-1. M C J Ball 14-4-
36-1. J N Snape 5-1-16-0.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE - First Innings

Runs 6s 4s BIS Mfn

K ) Barnette Batty b Bicknell 17 0 3 25 35

T H C Hancock not out 23 0 2 61 80

t> ft Mevnon b Salisbury 6 0 1 19 22

*M W AJleyne not out S 0 1 9 19

Extras (Ib2 w2> 4

Tbtal (for 2, T9 overs) J5

ftill: 1-26. 2-39

lb bat: M G N Windows. I J Harvey. J N Snape. tR C Russell.
M C J Ball, i Lewis. A M Smith.

Bowling: M P Bicknell 10-1-35-1. A J Tudor 6-1-14-0. 1 DK
Salisbury 3-2-4- 1.

Umpires: B Dudlesron and J F Sreele.

Other Matches

The Rate: Hampshire 29l for 3 (Stephenson 136. Aymes 69no)
v Q«tmd University.

Trent Bridge: Cambridge University 287 for 8 dec (Loveridge
87, Halsall 76) and 38 for 0 dec v Nottinghamshire innings for-
leit and 212 for 5. Match drawn.

Players
ready to
agree
Cup deal

RUGBY UNION

BY MARK STANIFORTH

ENGLAND'S Work! Cup players
are on the verge erf reaching an
agreement with the Rugby
Fbotbail Union over contracts
for this summer’s competition.

Damian Hopley, chief exec-
utive of the Professional Rugfciy

Players' Association, admitted
today it was “just a matter of
tune" before a deal was ironed
out with the RFU.

The contracts wifi earn each
England player a reported
£90,000 if they win the World
Cup final in Cardiff in Novem-
ber The contractual stumbling
blocks revolve around the
thorny issue of players’ ‘intel-
lectual properly” rights. They
are seeking assurances that
their own rights are being up-
held and that they are being
compensated for the use of
their image.

Hopley said: “The talks are
at a very positive stage - we’re
just developing the standard
contract for rugby and putting
down the markers that will put
it right for years to come. There
had to be assurances that if new
sponsors were brought in the
players wouldn't be signing
away their rights.

“The guys are really sensi-
tive at this stage, having seen
the s imilar situation in cricket
where players have generally
been labelled greedy. They
don't want to be seen to be grab-
bing more money - what
they're looking for is a contract
which will protect their own
image at a time when there is
a lot of money flying around
rugby. They want to ensure
everything is sound going into
the World Cup so that there will
be no distractions”

I The former Australian Itest
full-back Roger Gould has been
hired to assist the United
States team in the build-up to
the World Cup. Gould will serve
as technical adviser to head
coach Jack Clark until the end
of the 1999 tournament in which
the States will come up against
his home country.

Hoy sets
course for
Sydney

EQUESTRIANISM

by Genevieve murphy
at Wittering

ANDREW HOY and Bettina
Overesch, who are based to-
gether at Gatcorabe. com-
pletely dominated yesterday's
PERA Pre-Badminton Dres-
sage and Showjumping Chal-
lenge by filling the top three
places at the Grange Farm
Equestrian Centre here.

Hoy, from Australia, won on
Swizzle In and finished third on
Darien Powers. Overesch, the
European champion from Ger-
many, was runner-up on Water-
mill Stream - the onfy one of the
top three horses due to compete
at Badminton next month.

“It would be my desire to ride
at Badminton, but I don't feel it
would be the best programme
for the horses," Hey said. Hav-
ing won two Olympic team gold
medals, his sights are set on rid-
ing both mounts next year at
the Sydney Games, where
there will be separate team and
individual contests.

Not only did the two riders
prove the value of their dres-
sage lessons in Germany with
the Olympic rider; Klaus RaJ-
kenhol they also jumped three
of only six clear rounds over a
difficult show jumping track.
Mark Todd, who has an-
nounced his decision to retire
from eventing at the end of next
year, was also dear to finish

fourth on Regal Scot - one of his

possible Olympic prospects.

Blyth Tail who had led for
most of the day until relegated
to fifth place on his BurghJey
winner, Chesterfield, had an-
other eventful ride with Ready
Teddy, with whom he holds the
Olympic and world titles. “Ted
was very full of himself,” Tbit
said after his 24 showjumping
penalties.

This was Ready Teddy’s

third mishap of the year -‘'1 fell

off him at Gatcombe and got

stuck oaalogmthe water jump
at Rolleston," Tait said. The
rider is nevertheless hoping
that this augurs wen for Bad-

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C Testing day

for Muiahid

IT WAS four years ago that the
massed troops of Her Majesty's
press were invited to Anger-
ing Paiic to witness racing's sec*
Ond coming.

Sloe gin and port, plus asso-
ciated hamper goodies, were
provided as sustenance by Lady
Henries as Celtic Swing un-
furled his limitless legs dining
preparation for his three-year-
old debut The comestibles re-
main the enduring memory as
the two-year-old leviathan was
let down by wonky limb s in bis
Classic year

Celtic Swing won the Prix du
Jockey Club (French Derby)
that season, but it is a measure
of the expectation that accom-
panied him to the track that
the achievement of winning
France's premier Classic is
considered unworthy return for
the talent the horse possessed

Celtic Swing certainty looked
good that spring morning as he
carved his way up the Folytrak
all-weather gallop on Lady Her-
ries’ trial grounds. But the
piece of work accomplished on
this devilishly steep incline
which is now pertinent oc-
curred on Good Friday this
year when a vanload of horses
trundled over from the Arundel
premises of John Dunlop.

By Richard Edmondson

Among this batch was Mu-
jahid the champion two-year-
old of last season, who had
performed acceptably in his
casual pieces of formative
three-year-old exercise. This,
though, was the tesL The tyro
was pitched in against older
horses, two beasts which could
hold their own in Group races.
They should have been a
match, and more, for the young

RICHARD EDMONDSON
Nap: Mark an
(Newmarket 2.35)
NB: Star Of Dungannon
(Cheltenham 1.45)

pretender over this private,
seven-furlong encounter.

Mujahid, however, swept
them aside with an alacrity
which suggested this acre of
Sussex would after aQ, prove to
be the nurturing ground of a
champion. Reports of the work
soon filtered back and Mtijahid
was again seriously supported
for the 2,000 Guineas. While
other reputations have been
splintering at the outset of the
campaign, Mujahid has yet to
show a weakness.

The single soft spot in his
make-up would appear to be his

breeding, which suggests the
mile of Ms reappearance this af-
ternoon at the July course is on
the outer limits of his compass.
Mujahid’s father is Danzig,
whose progeny usually excel at
sprint distances. In addition,
Mujahid has developed a typi-
cal dragster's physique over the
winter a chunkiness not asso-
ciated with staying animals.

Nevertheless, it is hard to
erase previous evidence, the
moment when the colt blasted
away from a notable field in last
year's juvenile championship,
the Dewhurst Stakes up the
road at the Rowley Mile course.
He has only a further furlong to
travel this afternoon.

Certainty Mujahid is being
treated like a good horse. Dun-
lop announced earlier this week
that the colt would not run if the
ground was firm (his only fail-
ure came on such ground at
York in the Gimcrack Stakes,
from which Mujahid returned
with sore shins).

By yesterday though the
message had changed consid-
erably and a fresh bulletin said
the horse would be absent if
there was overnight rain and a
further softening of the ter-

i«nd‘

Bertolini and Frankie Dettori come clear of their rivals to win yesterday’s Free Handicap at Newmarket Jvlian HertertlARsport ^ .J-

rain. No wonder they call
today's trial the Craven Stakes.

An alternative plan should
the ground be too muddy for
Mujahid's poor little feet is for
the colt's owner. Sheikh Ham-
dan Al Maktoum, to be repre-
sented instead by Mutaahab.
his Royal Lodge Stakes winner

Bradley free to ride
at Cheltenham today

GRAHAM BRADLEY, who was
charged on Tuesday with con-
spiracy to cheat by fixing the re-
sult of a race, said yesterday
that he intends to cany on rid-
ing until the case comes to
court The jockey was speaking
after an appearance at Bow
Street Magistrates Court in
London, where Bradley and
five men charged in connection
with alleged doping offences
were granted bail after a 25-
minute hearing and ordered to
reappear on 9 June.

Bradley spoke only once dur-
ing the course of the hearing,
to confirm Ms name, age and
address to the magistrate.
Shortly afterwards, as he left
the court accompanied by his

by Greg wood

girlfriend, Amanda Wilson, he
said: "I will ride on and I'm look-
ing forward to riding at Chel-
tenham tomorrow,'' before
adding that he has “a date with
the Jockey Club on Friday”.

That meeting, at Portman
Square, wfll determine what ac-
tion, if any, the Club will take
ag ains t Bradley following Tues-
day’s charge. The jockey stands
accused of deliberately pulling
up Man Mood, the 4-7 favourite
for the Oliver Cromwell Hand-
icap Chase at Warwick in No-
vember 1996. Bradley's mount
was pulled up before the 12th
fence, leaving Drumstick, his
onty opponent to finish alone.

Bradley was accompanied to
yesterday's hearing by Michael
Caulfield, the executive man-
ager of the Jockeys’ Associa-
tion. “Graham is bearing up
very well," Caulfield said, “and
I know that he wants to ride on."

Bradley has just one booked
ride at Cheltenham today,
Country Star in the 4.00 race.

There was inevitable spec-
ulation yesterday that the Jock-
ey Club will suspend Bradley’s
licence before he leaves Port-
man Square tomorrow. The
stewards face a difficult deci-
sion, however since the jockey
has simply been charged, and
must be considered innocent
until a court finds otherwise.
Bradley is expected to be legal-

Bradley outside court

Newmarket

HYPERION

2.05 Hoh No 4.15 Victory Spin

2.35 Markan 4.45 Coco De Mer

3.10 Mu)ahld 5.20 Saafend Boy

3.45 CANDLERIGGS (nap)

GOING; Good.

STALLS: ZQ5 - stands side, remainder - tar skte.

DRAW ADVANTAGE; Low numbers probably best up to 1m

■ Right-hand couse with vn straight (July course l.

■ Course b SW of town on A 1304 Bus knk from Cambridge and Newmarket stations
ADMISSION; Club enclosure EW (halt-price 10- 25- year-olds); Grandstand & Paddock
e'-dfcsure ET1 (16-25-year-olds & QAPs, C6); Family enclosure G CAR PARK: Free.

FIVE-YEAR STATISTICS

■ LEADING TRAINERS: H Cedi 26-104 (25%). J Gosden 25-128 (135%). J Dunlop
21-124 («a%t R Harmon -B-tn (TU%). L CumanJ «-H8 05.1%), B Hanbury TI-69 fteSrib)

■ LEADING JOCKEYS: L Dettori 37-173 [21 *%) PM Eddery 35-183 fl9J%) H Hflia
26-118 (22.4%). K Fallon 2«-9l (264%), J Raid VW7 (144%). M HHta 14-137 (102%).

■ FAVOURITES: W8-522 (36%).

TONGUE STRAPS: None.

BUNKERED FIRST TIME; None

lo SWAFFHAM HANDICAP (CLASS C) £9,000
l g,vq l added 3Y0 1 m 2f Penalty Value £6,687 BSkfl

HAWES

1 401- AGIOTAGE (154) (KAbddah) HCed97.. K FaBon 12 SB

2 001-2 HOUTAHDDS; (12) (BF) (Shekti Ahmed Al Maktourn) M Treqonlng B 2 L Dettori 6 95

3 Od- SPRS\nSKM (167) (5 DomanjElej $ C WtansD 2 DmOTMSfM

« 52TO- PHOTS HARBOUR (217) (C) (M Berger) J Durfcp 9 0 MEddoryl HIT

5 50231- HOflMNG MJSIC (206) (Mdiamed Suhal) R Hamm 8 Q _.R Hughes 9 99

6 0401-3 FANCY MY CHANCE (21 ) (Maktain AJ Maktoum) E Dulcp 8 S _ .JRrtne 11 100

7 0440 CRACKLE (159) (W) (SP TnddJBVfls 8 7 ._JMWN7S9

B OH- BAISSE DARGENT (213) (Wmng Clide Club) D Casguw B 7 AMcGtom8ti.il

9 0255-5 Otto'S SPIRTS (21) (R N Khan) C Bnttan B 6 P Rotmoo 3 1W

O 0030- HOHNO(189) |D Alpon&RB Mcftadsonj M Bel 8 5 R HuBon (3) 5 9T

n 32200 PUmJST(iq(PUa»stFbrinerst4plWjanra83.. S Sanders 13 107

£ 006 TOUCH 0FL0VE(17) (HFtesrdatlSN Iterdeffl J fteedaBO M Henry 10 6 7

O 6-M46 PIPS BRAVE (40) flastem Parlnerstip) M PD0a» 7 a. ANtehafa (5)4 89

- 13 declared -

Mnmum weight 78 IOBl True tanOcap might Pip's Brave 78 7Bx

BETTING: 9-2 Agiotage 5-1 Fancy My Chance. Uouttfiddee, 7-1 Crackle, B-1 POcTa Harbour, 10-1
Huh No. Spree VWon, 14-1 Homing Muefc. PlmBaL 10-1 others
899 Nsutiral Star 3 9 6 M h«3 M-HJ Hfe) dram (n) 11 ran

FORM GUIDE

Agiotage: Progressive in maidens. u-tt when tanning Tf-rmner race a Redcar (71
good to soft) by 4 lengths. Doubts on pertgreo whether he wfl be surtad by this fat
Moutahddee: Won maiden d Thtisk (tin good) last September 1 lb hfc^wr than when
5 lengths second ot 9 to Nowhere lb Ewl ft rated stakes at Haydocfc (tm2'W. soft)
Spree Vision: Progessed with each start as 2ya beafang Tone 17. lengths m 6-
runnor maiden auction at Newcastle .(tn. heavy). Has stamina in h& pedgree
Pilot's Harbour Won 71 marten at Beverley and lm mrsery at Newmarket last sum-
mer. Below form (orty start on soft surface) final outing. Shapes as Kwd) stay 1m2f
Moming Music: Little process aa 2ya taking 7 races to get off the mark ft Kemp-
tan maiden (71 good to firm) ft September. Unraced on soft Dam stayed tm4f
Fancy My Chance: Favourite, won Yar m ou th marten (tin) as 2yo. Came from be-
hnd whan third to Kingston Ventura In Doncaster handcap (tin 2( also good to soft)
Crackle: ftacabfe last term with plenty of form on a sort surface: ftcfodftg wins in
marten at Bath (Ef) and nursery at Doncaster ffcn). On decent mark and stays titffif
Batsse D'Argcmt: Co-tavounte and upped to fti when writing weak 6-runner maid-
en al Mussefturgh (good to BOtt) by Vh lengths. Another step up n mp wfll help
Giro's Spirits: Consistent as 2yo (won Bngmon maiden) and agar ran with cred-
it wnen filth of 17 to Kingston venture at Doncaster {1Q3t good to so ft) on return
Hoh No: Won Tl -runner nursery al Goodwood (tin. good 10 frm) and thrt of 19 to
lee at Mark Mowing month. Lflwiy to stay Tm2f Unraced so far on a soft surface
Pluralist: Stoutly bred on clam's srfa Runner-up m two martens, but Bth of 13 n
two hareficaps suggests he ts not on a favourable mark. Unraced on a soft surface
Touch Of Love: Easiy best effort In martens when 9 lengths ninth of 23 (50-1) to
MUMaweq at Newmarket fim, good to firm) 2nd start wei hew on soft 17 days ago
Pip's Brave: Only 3tart on turf was debut last Juie (off 5 months erftar). Has won
a 1m marten a Southwefl. but kxAs harshly treated on turt Should slay Vn2t
VERDICT: The Sghtfy-roced. progreoswe types such as Agiotage, Spree Vision
and Baisac D'Argerrt dearly cemot be nied out but which one has made the most
progress Over the wn ter 5 impos si ble totei d this stage and it is a safer bet to ade
with DettorDs mount MOUTAHDDEE. A good second to Nowhere Ts Exit on soft
ground si Haydocfc c days ago this Hreabte son of Abac makes obvious appeal
with fw proven fitness and effectiveness if Its ran arrives as forecast. Fancy My
Chance a another with a decam et tart to tvs name already tivs lerm. whle Crack-
le and Hoh No are ftterashng contenders making their seasonal daouts.

FORM GUIDE

Canta Kb Brave: Room for Improvement with attitude but is an imposing type phys-
ically. Forth of 7 In Ascot Isted race {tin. soft) but deappoimjng on reappearance
Feb Flight: Won cwnpet ito ve nursenes at Goodwood and Newmarket. Reportedly
had ffcrfatrig heart only nn cn soft arface Hanpered when behrtd on reappeararKe
Gold Academy: Useful form on good to soft when A 7. lengths third to AJabr n Group
3 at Goodwood (7fl and short-head second to Kuwait Dawn at Doncaster (tin)
Golden Snake: Danzig half-brotfier to Sayyedah Showed good potential when wrt-
ning 13-8 favounto in 18-runner Doncaster maiden (tin, good) by 2 lengths from Bfae
Housemaster Sometimes headstrong Sixth of 28 ft sales race here (7L good) and
r/. lengths filed to Commander Cotas in Racing Post Hophy at Doncaster (tin, soft)
Marion: Very disappointing favourite al Royal Ascot (71 soft) but made amends by
2 lengths from Gudage in £31000 event at Newbury (71 good to firm) wa stay Bf
Tbbareeh: WW-irtated son of Marki i m pres se d ft baaing Debtses Warning 2'h bngtfK,
In TZ-runner maiden al Doncaster (tin. good lo soft) W1 stay 9f and beyond
YWareenn Fair farm placed in two martens on eoft surface last autumn. Beat VYeet
A-Wnute on Wolverhampton AW (921), but Iasi ul W In the Winter Derby at Ungfielcl
Miss Amuipurf: Fair maiden farm, bsaiftg Siixto a length ai Newmarket (71 good
lo fern), but res then only rwith of to ft Group 3 al Doncaster (lm. gx>d to soft)
VERDICT: Fair Flight. Golden Snake and Yakareetn are the only ones with-
out an entry in either the Gsineas or Derby but Golden Snake (a withdrawal at Don-
caster because of soft ground) in particular has a bright future Cl the rest Gold
Academy o not passed over fightfy, but the vote goes narrowly to the impresses
Doncaster winner TABAREEH ahead of Paul Coles Ctasrec hope Markhan.

CRAVEN STAKES (CLASS A) £35,000 added
3YO 1m Penalty Value £20,000

1 «!• MUJAHID (USA) (1B0) (C) (HaixtttN lbk«x»n) J Duvop B V. . ..flHBs4t23

2 «Hh- IIUIAAHAB (CAN) (200) (0) (Hamdan Al Mataocn) E Difttap 8 C ..KRAnSiM

J 3- ANSCHLUSS (UBQ (5aeed Mananai C Bnttaii 8 9 P Robinson 3 B3

4 71- BRANCA5TER (174) (Royal Asos Raaig) P Chappb-Hyan B 9 TQuhnlffJ

5 2212- COMPTON ADMIRAL (237) (BF) IE Fenser) G A BliSer 8 9 LDeflori 7 114

6 2 ' DEBBIE'S WARMNG (21) (GieenfieU StirD KMahd6 9. .JQi*ft2 M

7 3215-1 MENSA (8) (Ifes B Lodey] M Tar^*jn B9 SDnameSTCQ

6 3435-2 WALLACE (12) (J A Lazzari) R Hamon 8 9-.- R Hughes 8 »

-Stfedared-

tMaahab tuns only if ovemipfs ran prevents Mu/atia tirwr mmng
BETTING: 8-11 Ib^ahfcL 7-2 Brancaster. 6-1 Compton AdmiraL 14-1 Meraa. 16-1 WaBacs. 33-1
AnadUuss, Debbie's Warning

1388 Xaar 3 8 12 0 Rsfer 6-11 lav (A Fabra Fr drawn (61 6 ran

FORM GUIDE

Mujahid: Champion 2yo after 33-1 success by 2 lengths from Auction House and
Stravinsky In the Dewhurst at Newmarket (71, good) Unfkely runner if ground s soft
Mutaaheb: Hus won 4 races, notably Royal Lodge Stakes al Ascot nm, soft) by 7-
■ength from Glams This may be nsuffldmit stamina test Runs if Mujahid s absent
Anschluss: Atzao coil 20-1 ^een but stayed on wi-l when 37. lengths thrd of 9
to Credt-A-Pfenty n marten al Haydock (7t soft) This s a huge step up ft dass
Brancaster; By ffiverman. 4-5. won Haydocfc maiden (71 good to firm) by fi lengths.
Co-favourite, last-stride wnner from Sense In Homs FBI States at Newbury (731 heavy)
Compton Admiral: Uniuckyal Royal Asooi (aoit) before bealngKler ftsbncl a length
m marten at same course. 17- lengths second to Rase A Grand at Sandown (tin)
Debbie's Warning: 32000-guinea son ot warning. 16-1 27.- lengths second of 12 to
Tabareeh (due to run n the 235) n Doncaster marten (tin. good to sofll Still lade
Mensac Fifth of Tn Aijabr ft Group 3 al Goodwood (7t good to sofll Iasi July Fust
run anca impressive 3-length uwmer from Sergeant Vtoric at Rpon [9t good to firm)
Wpnace: Stll a marten, but plenty of promise os 2yo and was lengtn second of n
to Dehoush m fisted race at Kempton (tin, good) the Easier. Has to mprove again
VERDICT: If the ran lads to arrive and he duty takes he place. 2000 Guineas
favourite MUJAHID wi prove very hard to beaL Regarded as the top colt a John

Dunlop's from an aarfystoge last season, his 33-1 wn n the Dewhust was no flute

he has reportedly been vrertang ireD again fins spmg and there is fettle doubt that
he vrfl Stay a mfie, WeC -regarded Brancaster krota best of the rest and can take
care of Royal Lodge wmer Mutahaab H the latter deputises for Mujahrt.

Jo ocl FEILDEN STAKES (CLASS A) £20,000 added WSfM
1 - - I 3Y0 lm 110yds Penalty Value £12 T 668 Ml

1 CANTA KE BRAVE (USA) (8) (D) (Bf) (0 Vtocb) S Wx«3 6 tl L Denari 8 *i

2 1201-0 FAST FUGfiT (12) (D) (KhribSiAan) EOurtopBn KFaBoo 3 103

? 435-2 GOLD ACADEMY (19) (GEK'feo) A Harai SR DmOTMA SO

4 51- GOLDEN SNAKE (USA) (21 B) (D) IMcnaned Cbarta) 5 Hfa 0 11 HMDs? 95

5 S63- HOU^IASTEn (173] Fbbng) U Bel fl 11 .TQuomg 101

i 5 01- MAFB(AN(U$A) (271) (PrrceFaftJ^lTan) PCdeBh.- Jftriurat 98

7 2-1 TABAREEH (31) (D) (Fbrrtan Al ttatun) M Tiegoreig B 11

fi 23-10 YAKAREB4 P6) (Hamad Af-Uutewat K Mstid 8 II JQuftnBfOf

9 W «SSAMANPUW(217)(C)ULCfbiftM)SW^8fl. M Roberts 2 70S

- S decfcjred -

BETTING: Marian, 4-1 Tabareeh, 11 -2 Gortsn Snake, 7-1 GoW Academy. Mias Anwnpito, 10-1

Housemaster, 12-1 Fair Rtght, 14-1 Canta Ke Brave, 20-1 Yttaraem
1998 5adei Arrow 36 fl LDeflori n -4 (1 BaJdlng) drawn (6) 6 ran

3 4 =| BLUE SQUARE HANDICAP (CLASS C) £10,000 [SKI
I I added 3 YO 6 f Penalty Value £7,772 mmm

1 4Q- MITCHAM (Ifi^ (D) (BF) (T G ISfi) T ifis 9 7 TQt*w12 99

2 RiUNJIZ (189) (D) (BF) (Hamdai AJ Makkun) B His 9 4 MHB&3 99

3 62G1- K1NAN (IfiAJ (213) (D) (Hamdar AJ kbktiwtil R Arratrmg 9 4 . RKhlO 94

4 Witt- CUBISM (USA) (196} (D) [K Y Lm) J Ufa 9 1 L Dettori 9 90

5 2M SSTJACK (7) (D) (Luciyin Slud] J Naxda 9 1 . . ... OPesflerB 97

6 413- ENTWINE (1ST) iQwiqigy Farit SWQJFarehM 90 RCodveneS 95

7 2DTG- AEGEAN FLAK (262) (Theobalds Skid) BMwhanBO . .. P£Eddvy7 91

S 032-1 CANDIB1IGGS (12)(DHTheHgM Angle CrtWEDiriopa 0 . .. X Fatal 1 99

9 sew- TOPOfira^psflfHRHPtinceFStfwSatmapiPMeaio. . Jftituree 97
O 040-0 CHARLENE lACY (12) (Ms Am Jarvsi A Jarre B 6 DSweeney 15 100

11 SBW RANAANp2)(AhrredAIShefer)UCne(ftona5 SDitmelSfOO

12 0000 IGUIEENA LAD (12) (D) (Mrs J A Chary) E Wheels 8 3 .SCsnn(5]2 99

13 0214 SEVBt SPRINGS (40] (D) (BF) |N Qiaqnan] R FUnhead 3 1 . JQukn14100
W 13000- SWyWORDWELCOtttflBJ) (DJ(QialtarHcrtrigs)TQh«reglnn8D.APna(3)6 SB

15 5t3t SOUND'S ACE (160) (Pad J Dtax) D 3wo 7 O . A NieheOs (5) 1 1 1 05

- 15 declared -

AfWnwm vogft 78 IDSx hue henScap weight Sound’s Ace Tstna

BET71NG: 4-1 Camtaiggs, 7-1 Enbrine, Xhrai, Mltctwii, Munja. B-l Ranaan. 12-1 Cubbo. Top

Order, 18-1 Aegean Flame, Sir Jack. 20-1 Kflmeena Lad, Sound's Ace, 25-1 otters

S90 floja3 04 G Garter K-i (T tee) ttitwn (in 6 ran

trained by Dunlop's son, Ed
Both horses will not run.

There were snowflakes land-
ing on the July course last
night but not the sort of heavy
precipitation that had been
predicted. ‘T think hell proba-
bly run because the bad weath-
er forecast hasn't appeared,"

Dunlop snr said. “He’s been
working well and you'd expect
him to. We'll just have to see
about the trip. You can hope but
you have to see. He should win
on the form.”

Mujahid fS.10) it should be
then, and his price for the
Guineas wfll again be pared as

in Brancaster. the Homs Hill

Stakes winner on heavy ground,

and Compton Admiral, the
horse which floored the might-
ity-rated Killer Instmct at Ascot
he feces redouMahle opposition.

The previous Fteflden Stakes
is also of more than passing in-
terest as last year it produced

Border Arrow, who later filled
third place in both the 2,000
Guineas and the Derby. The one
to be on here is MARKAN
(nap 2.35), who comes from
Paul Cole’s in-form stable and
who has been working well
with Billy McCaw, awnmerfor
Whatcombe here on Tuesday

Bertolini too fast for Classic

ty represented at tomorrow’s
meeting, while the Club wiD also
consider the legal implications
carefully before deciding
whether to take any action.

The five other men who ap-
peared at Bow Street yesterday
were Ray Butlen Jason Moore,
Glen Gifl, John Matthews and
Adam Hodgson. They were
charged by police last month
after a two-year investigation
into the doping of two race-
horses in early 1997.

FROM THE moment the book-
ies chalked up their odds before
the Free Handicap here yes-
terday. Bertolini drifted in the
market at what would normal-
ly be an alarming rate. When
the time came to race, though,
he came back down seven fur-
longs of the July Course even
more rapidly, to give John Gos-
den his second success in a
Classic trial in as many days, al-
beit with a horse who will prob-
ably never run in a Classic.

Speed is what Bertolini has
in abundance, and not the sta-
mina which would carry him as
Ear as the mile of the 2,000 Guin-
eas. His trainer was even a lit-
tle surprised that his strength
lasted out over a furlong less
yesterday, but when he drops
badt to sprint trips, Bertolini wiD
be a horse to reckon with.

The winner was not even an

By Greg Wood
at Newmarket

in tended runner ♦his time last
week, and was added to the race
as “an afterthought when it was
re-opened on Saturday , having
attracted onty a han dful of en-
tries. Luck is cleariy on Gosdetfs
side, as the slow pace through
the first three furlongs left the
race at the mercy of Bertolini
and his sprinter's speed.
Frankie Dettori needed onty to
shake the reins a furlong out and
the race was over in an instant
Classic dues may have been
in short supply, but racegoers
did at least leave Newmarket
armed with the knowledge that
Gosdetfs string is in excep-
tional form. Bertolini was com-
pleting a double for the yard,
following the success of Swan
Knight in the first division of the

Wood Ditton Stakes, a contest
for unraced three-year-olds
which usually includes same fu-
ture Pattern-race performers.

Gosden does not have a sin-
gle runner at Newmarket today,
but his name wfll be one of the
first to look for in the days
ahead. Henry Cecil, too, is
sending out daily winners, and
he took the main supporting
race yesterday, the Earl of Sef-
ton Stakes, with Shiva, anoth-
er horse with real potential.

Shiva is a great rarity in
that she was bred in Japan, a
country which rarely lets its
equine sons and daughters es-
cape to Europe. This was just
her second run - and second
success - after a series of leg
problems, but if she stands up
to training there are more and
better races to be won with hen

“I thought she would need

the race,” Cedi said, “so that
was a good performance when
you consider what she’s been
through. I always thought she
could be very good if we could
get her to the racecourse^ -
The Hindu deity after whom
Shiva is named is responsible
fin; among other things, per-
sonal destiny. The fate mapped
out for the Shiva with four legs

- as opposed to a dozen arms

— now seems sure to indude
Group TVn> races at least

■ F nmki e Dettori and Ibny .
McCoy are to meet in a head# V
to-head at Sandown on 24 ApriT '
in a contest over a mile at level
weights of lQst 41b.

■ Coliseum, an Aidaa O'Brien
Classic hope, is injured and is
out for the season. O’Brien's
Tbhaikovslsy, another Classic
contender; beat two rivals at
odds of 4-7 at Gowran yesterday.

05 ^

2.20

FORM GUIDE

Mitcham: Progressive as 2ya winreg Warwick mart an (Bt good to ttm) and */-
length second to Compton Arrow at Ascot (Bf. soil) Capable of better
M un)b= Second to Stravftsfcy ai Ycrh. No trouble ft beams Voracious ft Goodwood
maiden (61 good to soft), dul was disappointing last of 3 at York <7f)

Kinan: 7-4, bea Habub V* length (8 dear of remainder) n '12-runnBf marten at Not-
tingham (6f good lo soft) Looks owners firet strrtg and has to be one to note
Cubism: 20} ttgher than when wimng a Windsor (8L firm) r August by a neck.
Easily better effort afterwards whan fifth of to al Newmartrel CL good) Dettori booted
Sir Jade Trailed by David Loder as 2ycv 2-5 when winning Newcastle maiden (6t
good) Tenperameni doubts afw poor nmt nsi (heavy) and wayward on reappearance
Entwine: Won Beverley marten and Newmarket misery (bofii 51 last going) last
autumn. 12- 1 no improvement whan nthd 12 ft CafTiwaBs Stakes at Ascot (5*. soft)
Aegean Flame: Trained by Kan Ivory, nproved when wnrang Ripan marten and
Newbury slakes, both 5f on good {pound in July. Not seen since later that month
Candleriggs: 61b higher than when beating Ranaan (lec 4t» 1 7- lengths n H-nft-

ner race at Kempton (BL good) 12 days ago Can mprove ogam and sruxJd go dose
Tbo Order Won Warwick maiden (51 good to soft) last ire by 9 lengths. No rom-

Tbp Order Won Warwick marten (51 good to soft) last Jme by 9 lengths. No com-
parable torn, n Group 3 at Royal Ascot and Bah nevree stakes (Jufy) last two starts
Charlene Lacy. Won the Brocktesby at Doncaster fit good to sottf last March. Fated
to improve on that and frst race since July when toth lo Candehggs at Kempton
Ranaan: Ran twice on AW late as 2yu winreig Wolverhampton maiden, alb better
off for 1 v* lengths wfth Candienggs ail Kempton Has scope lor further Improvement
KHmeana Lad: 50-1 won 15-fumei maiden at Newbury (61 heavy) No impact n
two nurseries, bul early speed tn Candehggs race at Kempton ftierestftg with raft
Seven Springs: 100- 1 ID lengths second ft auction at Nottingham fit heavy). Twice
favomte on Wbhrerhmpton AW. wkwig a marten but last of 13 low months later
Swyntofd Welcome: fl races as 2yc\ wimng Redcar marten (fit good to firm) Stiff
■asks rnureenas and ran as wel as ooukf be expected Dropped for this return
Sound's Ace: Reluct am at state as 2ya 4 lb hqher than when winning 10-runner
nursery at Newmarket (51 good) Acts on good to soft and can stay 8f

VERDICT Kempton first and second Candleriggs and Ranaan are deserved-
ly promnent ft the betting, but if the ground hxns soft it may pay la lake a second
look at KBmeena Lad who frtehed adrift 'X tha par B days ago but showsdof promise
and refahes cut endertoot UUNJI2, a wrra on good to salt, worid be a warm
order but for a disappointing effort owr 71 on his final start

El ALEX SCOTT MAIDEN STAKES (CLASS D) £6,000
added 3YO 7f Penalty Value £4,533

ARABIAN MOON (ISO) (Salem Sihal) C Bmtain 6 n PRoUnsonA

0- CRISIS (158) (Mra Ange S*»i L CunanB n G Spvkes (7) 9

3- DArepaawrtdtftAiiEDirtcpati. kfumj

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GEWNI GUEST LfcmGoed) 6 Itorgarsoi 8 fi

JriUtAYEO (Hamtffii Al MakKlfn) J Plricp 8 11

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SSanders2

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TOuirai 5

NEWMARKET
2.05: Michael Bell sent out two
winners here yesterday and his
HOH NO looks a value bet to
make a winning reappearance.

UOU

2.35: The money lost on
MARKAN’s debut was merely
lent and Paul Cole’s highly-
regarded colt can enhance his
claims for a Classic challenge
with victory over Tabareeh.

□CO

3.10: Success in the Dewhurst
represents much better form
than that shown by any of his
rivals today and MUIAHID
should confirm his status with
a short-odds win. Brancaster
and Compton Admiral repre-
sent the chief dangers.

□□□

3.45: Keren Fallon did not have
to get serious on CAND-
LERIGGS to hold off late chal-
lenges in a six-furlong handicap
at Kempton last time. The son
of Indian Ridge looks ideally
drawn and a rise in the weights
may not stop today's prize
money being collected by his
owner Alex Ferguson.

HYPERION'S
TV TIPS

CHELTENHAM
230: GOOD LORD MURPHY
has disappointed after winning
a trio of novice hurdles last sea-
son. However; described by
Philip Hobbs as “possibly the
star among our younger hors-
es”, he should be suited by
today’s going and the Hobbs
stable is in excellent form.

ooo

2.55: Barry Fenton retains the
ride on AMTTGE after coming
fourth in the Tbte Gold Trophy.
The mare tailed to stay 3m here
earlier and then didn't have the
pace to figure in the County-
Hurdle. Now over 2m5f, Amitge
has a fine chance, especially
with stablemate Lady Cricket
keeping the weights down.
OQQ

3.30: SHUILDANTE can land
this decent prize in the hands of
the inform Lorcan Wyer.

Ripo

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M 2- VICTORY SPIN (238) IM J Dawson) L Cunan 8 11 L Dotal 6

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BETTING: 2-1 SvraBtm Fight, 4-1 Dale. 5-1 Mitayed. 11-3 National Aitihwn, 6-1 Victory Soft, 16-1
Trouble. 20-1 Eiflftca, Northern Spring, 25-1 others
SM DAtol 3 B 11 D Boland W lav ID Ukler(FR)| drawn (S) 17 ran

FORM VERDICT

With me Cumani team in (arm. VICTORY SPIN looks llw one to be on. He has a
belter draw than ns main rivals Mukayed and Swallow night and the reports
from DuOfll suggest ha only conqueror last season Island Sands, is ^noial

14 451 EBF STUNTNEY MAIDEN STAKES (CLASS D) £6,000
added 2YO 5f Penalty Value £4,468

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7 NOTHING DA1MTED {Armed Al) E Dirifcp B 11

8 BSK FRK (Mn P JSheen) N Ltmrten 8 n TGMdfluqtdftfi

B SHffiR SABO (B J flipR) B Ht: 8 It

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- 10 declared -

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Speedflt Free. 14-1 Grert White. 16-1 otlnra ^ '

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FORM VERDICT

Not a fpeai deal to go on n a race n which eovemi are bred to be belier-than-
average )uvente& ALFAILAK. from a siaMe (wheft wJ have a good tee on Coco
de Mar (trough Ma Yoram) which nas done wel writ) its early 2yaa q«s ihe nod
over I Promteo You and Deep Blue

NEWMARKET 2.05
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7-1 M B-1 S-1 Oi

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CHELTENHAM 2.

NEWMARKET 3.45

fl SPORTSLINE STAKES (CLASS C) £8,250 added 2YO 5f
ti Penalty Value £5,317

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■698- Speedy James 2 9 4 0 Pe^er 54 lav (J Berry) ctiMn (5) 5 ran

FORM VERDICT

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them from the BARRINGER slablc of Mick Chamoa The Nkrototte call lookeo q

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here. E5ia rated Uw one to beat. Rati wted almost ceriajrty art ho cause Saafend
Roy court pose moot problems.

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THE INDEPENDENT

Thursday 15 April 1999

SPORT/23

Ribeiro to miss
London debut

PORTUGAL'S OLYMPIC 10,000
metres champion, Fernanda
Ribeiro, who was to have made
her marathon debut in London
this Sunday, announced her
withdrawal yesterday because
of a knee injury.

Ribeiro, who had indicated
her general fitness for the
marathon distance by record-
ing 68m in 44sec for a half-
marathon in March, pulled up
in pain while running on Tues-
day. Sbe is suffering from
patella tendinitis.

The Portuguese r unn er had
been making desperate efforts
to recover from a different injury
sustained 10 days earlier when
sbe completed a 30-kilometre
run suffering from pain in the
back of her knee. She bad been
receiving twice-daily treatment

Ribeiro, whose first attempt
at the 26 miies 365 yards dis-
tance had been keenly awaited,
was 4-1 second favourite for the
women’s title behind Joyce

ATHLETICS

By mike rowbpttom

Chepchumba of Kenya, who
won the title in 1997 by a mar-
gin of one second from Scot-
land’s defending champion, Liz
McColgan.

It is the second big disap-
pointment for the organisers of
the Flora London Marathon,
who announced last month that
Catherina MeKieroan of Ire-
land would be unable to defend
her title because of an Achilles
tendon problem.

Britain's Paul Evans says
Sunday's race is wide open. But
the former Chicago champion
has a sneaking fancy an old
friend, the South African
Olympic champion Josiah
Thugwane, could be first across
the line.

Eliminated by injury from a
race he desperately wanted to
contest, Evans turned to the

role of tipster when Thugwane
and the marathon world record
holder, Brazil’s Ronaldo da
Costa, appeared at a London
press conference.

And taking time off from bis
38th birthday celebrations,
Evans suggested Thugwane,
who dropped out of last year's
race after sustaining a ham-
string injury when frying to
avoid a wheelchair competi-
tor, win make amends this time.

Evans said: Tve heard
Thugwane’s training prepara-
tions have been going really
well. You cannot doubt his
toughness and determination,
and 1 really do fancy him.

“Mind you, any four or five
could win it, including Jon
Brown. It would be great for
Britain if he did."

Thugwane shot from obscu-
rity to national hero when be-
coming the first black South
African to win an Olympic gold
medal three years ago.

Early exit for
Kafelnikov

Carlos Moya on the way to beating German Puentes in Barcelona yesterday PA

YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV fol-
lowed the injured world Not,
Pete Sampras, out of the
Barcelona Open yesterday when
he was beaten 6-2, 6-4 by the Ar-
gentinian Franco SquiDaii

The exit of third seed Kafel-
nikov came soon after the top-
seeded Sampras announced
that he was pulling out of the
tournament after injuring his
back in a doubles match on
Tuesday.

The fourth seed, Alex Cor-
retja of Spain, and the seventh
seed. Mark Philippoussis, of
Australia, had already been
eliminated on Tuesday.

Kafelnikov, a semi-finalist
here in 1995, squandered the
chance of unseating Sampras
as world No 1 and was bundled
out by the more determined
Squillari.

The Spaniard Alberto Be-
rasategui, seeded 14, came into
this tournament without a win
this year but appears to have re-
discovered his form. Yester-
day he was made to fight by his
compatriot Albert Portas but

TENNIS

By Kevin fylan

came through to win 7-6, 2-6, 6-1.

The ninth seed, Albert Ccsta,
the winner of the Estoril Open
on Sunday, maintained his good
form as he raced to a 6-i, 6-1 win
over his fellow Spaniard
Fbmando Vicente.

Andre Agassi had to drop out
of the Japan Open in Tokyo be-
cause of a right shoulder prob-
lem he suffered when he won
the Salem Open in Hong Kong
last week Tour organisers said
that Agassi was not able to get
over the injury in time for
match play.

Richard Krajicek of the
Netherlands, won his second-
round match when his com-
patriot John van Lottum
retired after four only games
because of neck and shoulder
strain.

Krajicek was 3-1 ahead when
Van Lottum shook his hand and
told him he could not continue.

Results, Digest, page 25

Cheltenham

HYPERION

1.45 Star Of Dungannon 4.00 Dantes Cavalier
2.20 Good Lord Murphy 4.35 El Freddie
2.55 Am'rtge 5.10 Secret Bay

3.30 Shulldante

GOING: Good

■ Left-hand, gatopng course with stiff fences. Uphfll ruvm at 240yd

■ Course hWNot town oft AA35. Bus feik from Cheltenham rad station (served by
Bristol, Brmngham and London. Paddhgtan) 2m ADMISSION: Club &Taltefsa*a com-
bined ca (juraors. T6-3« years, CB): Courage Enclosure £5. CAR PARK: Free

FIVE YEAR STATISTICS

■ LEADING TRAINERS: M Pipe 48-344 (14%), Q Nicholson 35-345 (K3%K N IMston-
Davtes 22-229 (96M Mrs J Pitman 16-81 (taa%J. J Gilford 16-120 {133*34

■ LEADING JOCKEYS: A P McCoy 47-191 [246**.), N Williamson 39-192 (203%). R

Dunwoody 33-2® M A Fitzgerald 23-178 (129%). A Maguire 22-160 (13B%1

■ FAVOURITES: 221-554 (399%).

TONGUE STRAP: Star Of Dungannon (145), Navarre Samson (145). Petty Romance
1145). Ebullient Equiname (Z2C9. Elegant Maud (330), Highway Five (&T0)

LONG DISTANCE RUFMER: Earty Daisy (330) has been sen at Cheltenham (308 rrSes).
BUNKERED FIRST TIME: Good Lord Murphy (2 2D); Cool Spring (255).

1.45

ENDS LEIGH INSURANCE NOVICE HURDLE (CLASS C)
£6,500 added 2m If Penalty Value £5,077

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143231 LAWAHIK (19) (D) (J Joseph) C Uam 5 ti 8 — RDmwody

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20 PARTY ROMANCE (USA) (35) (Ms G A ftobaro) R Find 5 11 0 -.JFhHt

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v 34 LONG ROOM LADY (23) (The YbNWS X) N TuastavOaries 5 *) 9 _CUewlyn

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BETTfNQ.' 5-2 Star Of Dungannon, *-1 Sasnafeaan, 5-1 AI Gong. B-l Lowaftifc, Plain) Bom bo, B-1
Navarre Samson, 10-1 Misconduct. 12-1 MiAda; 14-1 otters
S96 Lanrttaran 5 T1 5 R Jotreon 2-1 by (T ftrsfet) 11 ran

FORM VERDICT

STAR OF DUNGANNON is highly, regarded and may have a bit mo much pace .
tar these on this ground The biggest danger watt wen be AS Gong, provided the
ground doesn’t become soft

6
7

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17 U2»P/ ROMANY CHEEK (742) (D) (BF) [A J Thompson) Jpfeerce 10 TOO TJMurphy

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Nhtonum wcfaM: rfta True lunridtp weejftc: Over The Beck Sat 1383 Equtty'i Oaring 9st )3tti. Star
Gwpto fty i3ti. Romany Crert ta.

BETTING: 7-1 Another Night. 8-1 Bradtanherih, Cacfla Own, Equity's Daring, Good Lord Mur-
phy, 10-1 Dm BaBrano, Flying Gunner Sweet Ghm, TBty, 12-1 EbufUmt Equhume. 14-t others
B9B no correspondng race

FORM GUIDE

Flyrng Gunner: Very tough slayer mho found the ground a shade too fast en Chel-
tenham (Dth to Generosal Preinousiy beat BrarAenheatti short head el Nawtxry
(Dom Berttrano and Good Lord Murphy further betovfl lb worse with 2nd. Sutf ink
Sweet Glow; Good 2nd to Brave Tornado here before stayrg-on 6th to Genet osa.
Odds-an in Newton Abbot riamer when 2nd to Castle Secret Not the force of old
EbidUent Equiname: Good showvigs first iwo starts and 14th to Geourma at Chel-
tenham when stable's second stmg Chances provided the (poind doesn't go soft
Dam Bettreno: Fidy exposed and tap (2m51) or sharp sale when T7th to Khayrawani
ri tastlval Twice beaten by Ftyng Gunner and 3b better tor 2 lengths at Newbury
Good Lord Murphy: Dual Sandown winner last season. Kept on at with when 8th
to Gene rosa at ClMtentwn. CkHeiy matahed with Ftyng Gunner. Brackenheatfi and
Dom Bettrano on Newbury form. PossUnes with MmAere tned
Brecfcenheath: taadequate trip at Lngftatd last vme. L earing chance with i ip puS
lor s/vxl head 2nd to Flymg Gunner at Newbury

Castle Owen: Notched ha-trick vt soft over 2m5l. Stayed on n 4th to Isemno a
Ascot (2rr»41) and massive task betwid Barton last un& Longer trp may sut
Court Circular: 21b lower than his Uttooeter win from Ross'Dancer Pulled up be-
hnd Flying Gunner at l/ttooster last time wants tastish condmons and hard to fancy
Tllty. Raped 41b tar Humngdon win from Grunge. Prefers a sharp course
Nirvana Prince: Without a win tor almost three years Prefers last gnxnd and only
hope is Adrian Maguire taking over from 7b riavner

Far Dawn: Dual winner n 1996 and big weight on wrong ground when sayng-an
6th to Equity's Darting at Sandown. Ground could be right today but sti hard lo fancy
Another Night Behnd EqurtyS Daring at Sandown but reversed the form on bel-
ter ground at Ascot. 6b higher mart but fine chance il ground doesn t change
Tonka: Yet to wr beyond 2m£i. Good showings against Young SparNCus and faded
attar tearing when 5th to Davosto at Uttaxeier (2m) last trna. Big sup up n mp
Over The Bode Progressive stayer last season and taied off on unsritabie ground
last time (behind Robbo at Newcastle). Lively outsider if grant stays good
Equity's Darling: Notched hat-trick n weahsh races before taring tap on sharp
side whan 3rd to Parings a Ungfetd. 4-length 2nd to Another Nght at Ascot (3m)
on ground loo fasL Now 2b bet lac Wants ran

San Gloiglo: Little chance without a recent run (6th to Jet labs here in November)
Romany Create Lkes fast ground Won four staying chases n 1995 Hard to fancy
after such a lengthy layoff

VERDICT: Only Brackenheatfi from the lop seven in the handicap didn't run at
the festival meeting. He has chances on his narrow second to Flying Gunner at
Newbury but prefe re nce e tar Good Lord Murphy, who e> tried m bbnkere alter tvs
eighth to Generous and a Gtabtemate of Papa Khansma, who won at Airtime last
week after his Cheltenham run. and CASTLE OWEN, be fund Barton at the lestrvai
after a promising fourth to tsmano m Ascot

Sound Appeal: Decent sort last season on good ground. Decent efforts m the soft
the term and kepi on «H when nth to Sr Tabot n County Hurrie. Up m tap
Cool Spring; Has taied to progress after two wins last term. Has changed stables
and wel beaten by Master Rastus m bad ground at Utiaxeter last tone
Hal on a: Warwick iwnw when fresh and a faBar when n front three out r Shari-
arn)5 race at Hereford Iasi one: Tries longer trip and Ekes cut m ground
JessoDe: brpressjve Musselburgh wmner Found tyound too testing ai Unoxeter [3rd
to Just Jasmine) but bounced back with 4-length wn at Cartsle. nib out of heap
Skipeari: Soh ground mre at Enter and Fontwei and rau vned with nfeewd throat
when 3rd to Hot To Trot el Fokesuxte. Slays wH bough 17b out of handicap
Flagship Theresa: Won mares' taal at Newbury (2mSfl bv over 3 lengths from Hot
n Saucy pro beaten here yesterday) Prefers a decani surface and not without a
chance despite bang 17b out of weights proper

View's Vase: Without a run smee a narrow good-ground win from Tony): Mst at
Taunton in tavember. Can ga wd trash but staler task today from 19b out ert h'cap
Alta: Ak wns ganed on good ground. Crerifabie 2nd lo Moonshine Bay at Sandown
(2m) last tme but seemed to fad this tap too tar on previous starts
Sally Sadly: Only 6th to Octaina HB at Ptompton test time and no hope at weights

VERDICT. With Lady Cricket in the head there are soma interesting and poten-
tially Improving mares out of the hanricap proper, notably FLAGSHIP THERESE.
who showed her Seng tor decem ground when lancing the mares' taal at Newtauy
Despite carrying much more weight than her official mart, she can surprise Lady
OckeL who n out tyActty rater a hard race si Akttsee a week ago. Lady Crickets
stablemate Am itge night jusi be racing over her best ttyj so has chances and Sound
Appeal wants decern ground after latest crerilabte showing m the County hurdle

MTtady Ana: 2nd to Sandy Duff on debut but only 5di when favourite to Lost The
Plot at Fonmefl (good fftvxft Won on heavy ground at Uttneur (Roman Uproar.
Sa*y Ughttaot, Good Job and Duvet behind) so nun wiB help
Earty Daisy: 8th to f* Lamb es BAjssebugh and length 2nd lo Baiter -K (good run
n bumper at Cheltenham) at Ayr

VERDICT: A fast pace resulted n an improved run by Gulshan at Cheltenham
so she wfl be hoping for a slmAar galop Lost The Plot e Bv&ty to encounter srot-
br ground after her Fontwei win. on winch rnnnng she Molds MBadfy Ana and Gul-
shan. Good Job has shown abAty and has Richard Dunwoody lo help tar the fast
time, and me northern raiders Stiuildente and Roman Uproar are others Htefy to
figra But TICKLE THE TILLER gets the nod from (he powerful Paul Webber yard

4.00

3.30

DONCASTER SALES NH FLAT RACE FINAL (H)
£20,000 added fillies & mares 2m If £14,135

CHELTENHAM HANDICAP HURDLE (CLASS B)
£15,000 mares 2m 5f 110yds Pen Value £10,796

0”OAl CONCORD CLASSIFILE HANDICAP HURDLE (B)
£15,000 3m 110yds Penalty Value £10,845

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FUflNG GUNNS) (30) (mMsRJ Stan) DNchobcnB 120 R Johnson

SWEET GLOW |FR) (12) (CO) (B^ (M C F^K) M Ppe 12 tl B. APMcCoy

EBULL1B(T EGSHNAIE (30) (LtWson) N HandBoan 8 11 D MAFtagartid

DOM BSJRAN0 (FR) (29) (D) (C VSMgM) N Ttmtan-Dares 7 11 8 CUenelyn

GOOD LORD MURPHY (30) (The CartrySUa) PHubts 711 B R Dunwoody B

BRACKENHEATH (ZS (D) (J3hn Gha) D Grcsd 8 h 2 JdWWwmanB

CASTLE OVfEN (2SQ [Lnd \teB5y) D Htrictoi 7 11 2 RThorrion

COURT CIRCULAR (103) (D) (P Lnes) WOty 10 O t3 G Danny V

1UY (USA) (20) (Oradto Raong) A Seaeer 9 D 11 Qiry Lyons V

MWAHAPftJNCE (19) (D) |D Pwtrran) 0 Preere B B9 AMagrire

FAR DAWN (USA) (34) (P VfcgBnd) KYs A rtnett 6 D 9 CUanto

ANCfTTffl) HH3HT (15) (D) (Sinsa Fbrtrwshp) P W*phy 5 10 1 — Air R FbntetN (5)

TDMCA (B) (1*5 C A Wfabaa) D Garddto 7 00 D Laity

OVBI THE BECK (54) (D) |R Coins) J M Jaftamcn 6 ID 0 LWyer

BDunTSDMtUNGt15)(Eff)I1teVUtanf)DOBnm7t>0 . — MBOMh( 5)S
SAN GlOflGK) (T32) (C) (D) (F Kebal) A fttbs 1) XI 0 .TDascombB

1 1-1W lAErrCRKXETtFR>fn ID) (D ft Jrirecn) WPtaeS'CD. ... . . -APMcCoyB

2 353540 AINTGE (FR) (28) (PLsIe H Late) M itae 5 103 B Anlan B

3 P50430 SOUND APPEAL (28) (Q (R W 3 J R Fdef) 0 hkCarl 5 V 2 E Husband

4 1-3333 COOL SPRING (23) (1^ (P Wirkwor9i) P Wirtvortfi 7 TO 0 OMaPha2(5)B

5 4-SQF HMJ3l(Ap4)(tasZSCIart)Cttotort9t)0 — Mr S Scrooge (7)

8 313331 t^SSOLLE (12) (CRFIeel) N(taJianJ5 7 t)0__ taJCitrefcy(5)

7 1-210 SWPCARLpO) (J B Sutey) Mss H Kityl 7 X) 0 M Bacteta (5)

S 10U1 RAGSHB* THERQE (19) (D) (A P &*Jy) PffchofcSXIO - .. . _ .... JTtaurd

9 U2t VICARS VASE (154) (QPDlAtetKBaiey 6 lOO — Ih R Fontetat (5)

D 12D52 A1JA (34) (The AJchemsW N TunsfeivDares 6 O 0 CUewrtyn

fl OP-646 SALUrSCALUr(iaS)(BF)(MsPSHOT]MsslFtMS*7D0 ... . B Powefl

-11 declared -

MWffiuro weight !0a True (wxAc3p m«ghc: C-oiV Spring S« 6*. 9a SAlp
cari 8X1 1th. nggsripTherexSal fib. Vicars vase 9*>.Ato 8st9tD, Safy Softy teSto
BETTING: 5-2 Lady Cricket, 5-1 Ragslip Thnreee. 7-1 JeeeoHe. 8-1 Amltge, in Sound Appeal,
fUm. SU peart, 12-1 Cool Spring. 20-1 others
B9B. no corroEpondrig race

FORM GUIDE

Lady Cricket Easy wtaner at Newbury (2m5f| Out Wb tegher now. Has sues Im-
tahed 9tn m Champion Hude and 4ta io Papo Khariema at Aintree
AmRgK ethto Brave 'tornado hero (3m) In Decentoer and ak» when 4th to Decaif>age
at Newbury (2m). Stiff task behind Sir Tatwl at festival CoiJd find this mp ideal

1 2 CHOPINS REVOLUTION (35) (Uis J Bakbnzaj N ttifikn-Daves 5 tiO..JGoktaain(9

2 00 DAYS DESTINY (40) (A Day) JfAAreS HO MiDTumaim

3 54 DEADLY DORIS (77) (5 Hey 6 S Lxlam) N Smth 5 Tl 0 BPoml

4 0 DUVET P3)(RJ Matthews) Mss K George 7 no. _JRKavmMgh

5 06 ELEGANT MAUD (22) (G Roel G tae 5 IT 0 5 Graham p)

6 405 GOOD JOB (Z3) (Mann Cf»n)C Mere 711 a. ROuimody

7 360 GULSHAN (29) (Msj K FoweR N TwckxvDares 5 tl 0_ CUmMOyn

B 331 K9ITFORD BUSY B (78) (D I Bare] JMJnsSttO J) Bates (3)

9 43 ROHAN UPROAR (23) (LtsK Walton) MHammonO 6 HO ....N Hotrocka (3)

IQ 854 SALLY UGHTFOOT (23) (Mre R S Perirc) P Otan Sti 0 RTtncNon

tl 5-23 SARABELLA(I32)(Mre5KteaQgh)HKavanagh6tlO_ JVMagura

C 3 SHWLDANTE (45) (UsKSGaHneyS Ue A Stevenson) <J M Jsffersor 5 it O.-.LWyer

0 4 TCXUs THE TILLS) (1 24) (W Stand Kydd)P Webber 6 T10 J A McCarthy

14 1 UKT'IHEPUn'(52t(!<»T«iPartnanty>lDArouttwS4Di2.. DGatafter

C 251 IflLADY ANA (23) (Us J Mould) D Mchabot 4 f] O R Massey

E 02 EARLY DAISY (73) IR Carwon) RAfai4« 8 ._B Storey

- 16 (teetered -

BETTING: 84 Loathe Plot, 4-1 Wady Ana. 7-1 GutehartO-l CtwptesRewhiUon.'ncWe The nttae
10-1 Stuiktente. 12-1 Good Job. Kentfbrd Busy B. Earty Daisy, 20-1 others
BW- No ccnesponting race

FORM GUIDE

Chopins Revolution: Oettitabte 2nd to Gotten Rose on debut r soft tyounri at
TowcesJer with Good Job and Saly Ughttaot behnd. Stable also runs Grishar
Days Destiny: Behnd Lost The Plot at Fontwei and unMrefy to fig^e
Deadly Doris: Led 41 out on debut (5<h to Steady Eddy af Woroeswi and n®rt start
tiro months later when 4th at 2i to Devfs Advocate at HmUngdoo
Duvet WeaKerwd Jf out and tailed off behnd Mady Ana at Utnsttler (heavy)
Elegant Maud: Swallowed her tongue on Fcvitwel debut and then 5th of ffl (bm 19
lengths) to Rotter Blade on taster ground at Onflow Hard to fancy
Good Job: 3 lengths behind Chopins Ftevoiutian at Tcwcester and 5th to Mlady Ana
a Unoreter Clalmer ndden al starts and now with Rtchard Dunwocdy on better ground
Gulshan: By Bauhoof and laded 21 out when (Sh to Lost The Plat (btn 10 lengths)
at Fonrwefl. Stayed on when a 12-length nth to Moroignor at festival Every chance
Kentford Busy B: Best run when 2nd to Crack Shot at Taxiton Found groind too
testing at Ungfietd test tree when 4th to Johnstonh Art

Roman Uproar: By PrrrttivB FSsmg Promee on debut behtad Wynyard Damsel at
Newcastle and may not have enjoyed testing ground at Urometer when 3rd to Wa-
dy Ana. Stable m line form and vary competent ctevner aboard
Salty Ughtfoob Modest tom and someihng to tad with both Chains Ftevoiution
and MQady Ana on testing ground (lay ettori on good on detxn)

Sara Bella: Ctamner ridden and now with Adrian Maguire 2nd to the smart Count
Campari at Ludtow and 3rd to Cassia at Hereford Returns from layoff
ShuAdante: By Phardante Did to tie wrong on debut at Newcastle, headed out
and staying on again In 2nd to Wynyard Damsel (Homan Uproar -IthJ.

Tickle The Tiller: A Slrong Gale so wfli not warn ran Ref urns tram 4-mornn rest
once debut 4th to Lady Martov* at UngfieU. Yard houses plenty of bumper winners
Los* The Plot 25-t wtien a oosy wwiw a Fontwei on debut. Form boosted when
Mtedy Ana (5th) won next iron Abe had Glisten behind so obvious chance

NICHOLSON HOLMAN CUP HANDICAP CHASE (CLASS
C) £12,000 added 2m 110yds Penalty Value £8247

1 -26143 HURRKANE LAMP (28) (D) (M 1 & Mrs F C Wrich! PNchrisonS CO .RJotmon

2 -3UH COtMTTIY STAR (28) (D) (Mb 5 tbeta) E L James fins. „...G8radtoy

3 22302 DANTES CAVALIER (18) (D) (Eras of btoWDcrel DGsndpio 9113 _ .R Dunaoody

4 2B5-3D SUBIUE FELLOW (28) (D) (R McGrih) N HendEfSOn 9 Tl 3 UAFtqsrald

5 own BUCKLAND LAD (27) (D) (Mis f) M Heptun) D Grisel BOO B Fenton

G SFJSBt NNGS CHBJHY (9) (p) (T J Swsrtefci) J Okf R 09. CUeweByn

-6 f ^ far p fj .

BETTtHQ: 114 Darin Ca«Ba^ 100-30 Bncktend Lad, 4-1 Country Star. Hurricane Lump, 11-2

SubBma Fellow, 1!K? Ktogs Chany

B93- TdBbrooli 9 ft B N VMnneon I1-W Ito (K Bsfey) 5 rwi

FORM VERDICT

The winner is eKpected to come trom one of the three who ran in last month's Grand
Arruaf Chase With this analier field expected to ait him, SUBLIME FELLOW may
be able to reverse that form with Hurricane Lamp and Country Star on the bal-
ance of thee term, the eefeebon is the best handicapped of the three. BucUand
Lad has been dong his winrang ri weaker races and has mors to do trts time

MINSTER LOVELL NOVICE CHASE (CLASS C) £10,000
added 2m 5f Penalty Value £6,840

4.35

1 211/31 EL FREDDIE (20) (M Lonti) J OU 9 tl 12. _.TJ Murphy

2 -HOP FLAXLEY WOOD (28) (CO) (Ifrs D A La Trcbe) R Buckter B Tl E B Powdl

3 6-2314 (NN ATTHE TOP (87) (D) S Btefcetey) J R Ti/ner 7 tl O RSinh

4 14P322 SON OF ANSHAN po) (F J Saviuy) Uta M Jcnes 5 IV O . - _ -Altayire

5 11230 VILLAGE KING [5) (CD) [Capt E J EdianteHeaWde) P Hobbs b II C-.RDUMuady

6 51RJ-3 BOUCHASSON (FR) (49) (A Sterrett) P hfcbbs G It 2 R Widgsr (5)

7 23BFB4 CAUn»RO(3B)(attytar)JGdfDitiaf12. — LAepel

-7dactand-

BETT1NG: 1M VtflBCM IGng, !F2 Ruiey Mbod. San Of Aitshan, 5-1 B Fredda, 7-1 Irtn At The Tbp.

B-1 Beuchasson. 50-1 Catwro

B98- Malta 8 IT O C Ueoelyit 2-t (N Tmaon-Daws) 5 ran

FORM VERDICT

VILLAGE KING Is the p«k on farm and condHtana wil suit han down to me ground.
He has very gold credentials, with only the fact that he had a hard enough race
at Aintree only six days ago to temper confidence.

|e -ini BAULKING GREEN HUNTER CHASE (CLASS H) £5,000
I lu l added 3m 2f 110yds Penalty Value £3^99

1 1-B323 UST OPTION 12B)P ’fate) Rtaa 7 07 ...Iks F Hocdham (3)

2 1P-1FP STALBRtDGE BJLL (28) (CD) IL Jarkreon) J DUtosee 9 C7 JHrA HonaybaU 0

J 14222 ALLWEATTBt (20) (C) (M SWtesmBi) ItaDWtesmth 13 03 — Mr M Wtekiith (7)

4 ft -321 SKRETBAYffllSDenDCDambBOS UrSSmans

5 4P-321 BENDOR HARK (P32) (R Hmd) Ms M Hand O O 0 lire A tend (7)

6 P3S305 HfGHWAYnVE(Pl2) (Lady Susan aoota) Lady SBreota Jl GO- idaoE Jamea(7)

7 SBOM IB INVADER (51) (U Borkfrgtx'l N Gaseiee COO IkJ Trice-Rotph (3)

B 7044 REIGN DANCE (IQ (Ms D H McCarty) Ms D McCarthy BOO ..UrT McCwflry

9 52U-23 RLBTY BRIDGE (40) (O (I K Johnson) Ms 5 Jotason 0120 MrRBmn(5)

O 32-321 RUSTY FaiDW (P9) (Mrs G M Shai) R ShM 9O0-... MrD Mansefl (7)

11 IP9PK SOLAR WARRIOR (22) (S Ktering] 5 Krtding 9 00. _.MrNKirt(7)

O no/i STRUGGLES GLORY (Piz) (D C FUaeon) D fttnacn SCO -MrOCRubfnntrT)

Q -Ft20 T1NOTOPS pa) (Cl (P) (R H H Targoil Ms R Vk*e»Y 9 O 0 Mtea $ Vfctary (3) B

-13 declared -

SETTING: 7-2 Last Optica, 4-f Secret Bay, Struggles Glory, 9-2 StaSirttfge Bfl, 7-1 TimriqM. ID-1

testy FBflow, 12-1 Bender Mart, 14-t othare

898: StabrtOge a 8 ft 7 Mu A Goachan (7) 5-2 jl to D Dufosee) 2) ran

FORM VERDICT

Last Option e going to take a tor of beating foUowrg his axceteni effort In the
Foxhuntere' hare last nme However, STRUGGLES; GLORY corid wei tre some-
thing special and, although Ms jockey wil put up some overweight he is taken to
overturn Last Option, who had a hard race at the Festival

RIPON

HYPERION

2.10 Connect 2.45 French Grit 3.20 Azzan 3-50
Kattegat 4.25 Don Quixote (nb) 5.00 Cryhavoc

^ GO ING: Good.

JBCTALLS; Straight course - stands sida; round course - Inside.
rWAW ADVANTAGE: Low S & 81 High best over round tin.
Vi Right handed course

■ Course a east ot the erty on B626S. ADMISSION: CM> £h4;
Tretwaafls £9 (OAPs ca); SAw Rtog W; Course £3 (accompa-
n«d unoer- TBs free ai encfoBureo). CAR PARK: C« and up to
tour occupants In course enclosure reminder free.

FIVE-YEAR STATISTICS

■ LEADING TRAINERS: M Johnston 17-103 (H5K), T I

ty 17-iag (132%). H CecB 13-33 L CUmafli E-44 (

■ LEADING JOCKEYS: K Duty 34-146 (203%). K
22-106 P0fl%). j weaver J8-103 pss»). J CarroH «-Mfi

■ FAVOURITES: 150-430 (343%)

TONGUE STRAP: Aa-YouKnownathing (2A$\ Watfn'Sea.
Sound The Trumpet Ticta TTcka Timing (500).

BUNKERED FIRST TIME: Ambitious (2451

—

~0~- Tn \ EBF SHAROW MAIDEN STAKES
Am 1 U| (CLASS D) £4,500 added 2YO 51

CONNECT Mlnnptav 90 GEBUflmafPJI

COOL JUDGE W Mi 90 ACt*at»«

HAMMER AND SICKLE M Johnston 9 0 DHoiand2

JAZZ.TME A Jmte 9 0 . L Newton 10

4 PTAH (19) J L Eyre 90 CUtefltiefS

ROCK ON ROSIN C Fakfust 9 0— Ji Ferton B

UNCLE EXACT J Barry 90 G Osier 5

YOURE SPECIAL (USA) P Hasfam 3 0-..-^.- Jl Wfltdtt 3

2 COSUfflAflD) RVMatarBS

DOUBLE FAULT TEiriterty 89

- — F Lynch 11

K Barley 7

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2.45

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JOBMA T Eaaaoy 8 9

v -il deetered-

^rETTING: W Uncto ExacL 7-2 Hanmer And StoMe, M Cosncns, 7-1
w ’tta. 8-1 Connoa, Doubta Fault, 10-1 Jemima, 14-1 ndrers
FORM VERDICT

Those wtlh previous fertn look nrahkig to writs home about,
and HAMtSR AND SICKLE looks the part on breedrn
and comes from a stable whch Knows how to got them ready
first time. Ptah may obi Into a piac®.

RIPON COURSE MARINA CLAIMING

STAKES (CLASS E) £3^00 added 5f

t 03005- MON BRUCE (229) (D) M Dotfc 5 9 6 ,F Lynch!

3 VefrURECAPfTALBT|l^Df*Jxfct)97AteCrtev»3

3 08050 FRENCH CHT (73) W(D)D Sarto 792 DHaflmdlO

4 003346 DANOE THIS 0 (D)Rhmy4 91 ,CCafin(7)1B

5 00000- RiCHaX)WpaZ)(DjNByOTftB90 GDMflaUB

9 OOCOCy TWTOLDFHLfl«tf81)GICely7eO,.5RnnflMref7)3
7 03300 AAYOUKN(MNOTHNG(3Ct(D)MsJClBB3911.TWafM9

9 -82135 AMBJTXXfS (14) J Ftaeharo 4 S 11 WRy»7B

9 WJ-ANGE BABY (232) (D)J Barry 308 tota Wands (3)8

H SOOMSHAlABpBJJL^reSfla RLappin4

-lOdadared-

BETTING: 64 Angie Babft 1 3-9 WMhn Captaflst, HH Uon Bmce, 1 M
A^-You ki mnutlitu g , 14-1 ArebteotiS' 16-1 pande Tnas. 2H othere

FORM VERDICT

Todays weights greatly favour Venture CapBa B at and
ANGIE BABY, and with the five-futong trip aB in favour of
Jadt Benys fffly she lodka the one to bo cm.

ro?n COCKED HAT ‘COCK OTHE NORTH*
* a£Xi \ HANDICAP (C) £9,000 added 3Y0 1m

30B3S- GLANWYDD0I (T70) J8«tyS7. — PBtadteyp)10

22233- ROH(t43)(B^FHasbm97 HTfctajC7

On- SWTZBERGEN fin) PJ u Joroai 06 D Hatiand 12

9K- ttdAN PLUME {208) f^yCThonffin 96 WRyanB

13304- faNGSUEJACKP(mCfMW8(93 .CLmthtell

005- A22AN (USA) (160) JD titop90. GCartitr S

03054- JUSTUPYCMSrREErftBfl) JJ01fa9flt2— GDuJdjdW

30f-DB>OLROa(ltD}PCetyr8t) ^parity*

O&O PRAIFUEWWF(19) (D) (BF) MBelfll) M Fenton 6

04004 COMW»OY(1flAJttre88 LtfafannS

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Photo. Aaan, 7-1

BETTING; 5-1 SpitdtotyBi, Prairie Wait 6-1
AK Of Eataeta, 8-1 Boobf Wtiogy, 1M Finn, 1M cflhere

FORM VERDICT

One of the toast wepoeed <n the field. AZZAN comes from
a race at Doncaster last backend that worked out wal and
he runs as though be w3 be wet suted by the crap up m
cftstanca Fiori co ufd give him moaf to do.

3.50

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030-22 ROMERO (1? (BF) C Thornton 83 _..JRaming7

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BETniiG: 3-1 HSqA tare, 4-1 Bufcfen Squa*. 02 Seoet Cafl. 5-T Rmnero.
ft-1 Berocnerep Notate. B-1 Fantasy HI*. 10-1 Kattegat, 12-1 Stolen Tool

FORM VERDICT

KaUsgtH Is Beefy to prove a tough nut to orach at this kind
of trip, wide Romero has been running wed already this
season. Thai last comment oertamly appSes to HIGH
TATRA, who scored emphatically test time out this year and
whose Bt> subsequent rise may not be enough to stop Nm.

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£5,000 added 3YO 1m

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4 D. DON OUKDTH (tUS) (BF) L Cunan 9 D RRrenehS

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BETTWG: 3-1 Rahoyrt. 7-2 tiinus. 13-2 Tonta, 7-1 Don OubEOtE, 8-1
Jet Age, 10-1 Compton Ajax, Gentleman Ventura, 14-1 others

FORM VERDICT

With Luca Qumanfc team hearing made a flying Ban fa the
seas on. Port Qubcoto mutl be respected, but he has somg-
thrrg to prove and may ham to settle tor a mto« rote behind
ILISSUS. who looks sin to corns on for hto detflit run and
wi be sated by tire artra it

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BETTING: 11-2 Srtdri Corrie. 6-t Swan At Whalley, S-1 Zuhete, Johsy-
ro, hrory'a Onto Hire, Sons fflrale, 10- 1 Dtatait King, KMar, 12-1 others

FORM VERDICT

The David Metals pan Zuhair and Cryhavoc are ones io
keep an eye on, but axpoct JOHAYRO to make a bold bid
to repeat rts win di 1987 si this event and complete a hat-
trick ii the race ter his trainer.

RACING RESULTS

NEWMARKET

Going. Good
IJS rtn 3vo maiden states!

1. SWAN KNIGHT L Dattott 13-8 lav

l Uanndar 1 Fonune 5-1

3. High Hoytand Ft Hughes 33-1

Also ran: 6-1 Whiapenrw WM. 0-1 Capran
BSgh (4th). Qua Ogrtty (60i). 1&1 huwail am
Who Cares Wins 25-t Foriune Cootoe. 33-7
Kern. Mtavw. Partadfi ©»h)

12 ran. Sh-ha */., 3V., V.. r* (Winner erowo
coll by Stator's Htoflouf oiSnanntara. iranad
by J Goeden at r tew mart pi fw Stie*r>
Mohammed) Tbte K30: Ci« C20C £6t» DF:
E420CSF C7B5.

2-05. (71 rated handcapi

1. SHOWBOAT

2. Temeralre

a.Stanoa

..N Pollard 9-1
nil 20-1

4. Tfcftjiun

.Dettori 13*2 tav
_M Fenton 33-1

Also ran: B-1 AI MuaAm (5th) 8-1 Harmonic
Wav. O-t Davtght to CU»l Retun otAmn n-i

Sally Jac* C-l Epsom Cydone H I Free

“ -* “ - - -- --

Tundtewaed

l>*W

IB ran. Sri-hd Z nh. 7- 27 . (Winner Mr colt
by Warning cm cl Boertuusa. trewm by B rtfe
a LantaMn tar R D HoBngswaih) Ttott:

caeo: Eisa C4ta casa csaiw. ebi^c csf

C172J3S Tncast: 00753 ffl GKirrivi Pel
2JS [an TUyds Bad Ol Set ion Siat-asi

1. SHIVA K Fotam 7-1

2. Hoaml — R Hffte 100-30 lav

..Pat Eddery 20-1

3. Green Card.

Also ran: 4-1 W)iib Heart, 9-2 Handsome FkJcie
(8!h). 10-1 Dud Row. n-l Atooosua Leer
Spear (Sth). 40-1 Deww House <4th). KM Da-
mnnd wih&

10 ran. 17,. t v. sh-hd 7. |*w*r cnestn.’ I
6fiy Oy Hector Protector out ol Lingerie, earned
by H Cea at Newmans fw the Marches Fam-
MTbta; 070. MD C\70 £4* W- CB5U
CSF £2196

3.10: (71 3yo Euopean Free Hartfcapj

1. BERTOLHM X Denori M

L Indiana Legend ,
3 KelkJaae .

Pal Eddery 4-1

J Fortune 1«-1

Afao nm T1-H lav Vision Of fifighi (5th) 6-t
Undeterred (4th). tM Caballero (6th)

6 nm- ?/,. IV.. IV,. Vh. 2. (Winner Day celt by
Dating out W Agutogte. Irainad by J Gsoden
e> Newmartet tor Snriakti Mohammadl Tote:
B4DP; dm ££50 DF, DUO CSF C3MS
3-45. rtn 41 rsTdcapi
t.MlNtVET-

2. Rainbow Ways
3- Ha|r.

_T Ouhm 15-2
M HiHs 9-2

,P« Eddery 4-1 lev
Also ran: W Atoertch, 9-1 Laroet (5th). 12-1
WaweOf Optimism «-1 Just tn Time t*lhl. *■
i Ftyt Master St Lawrence 2fri Bured Story
Ol Grosvenoc 33-1 Beaumont (Btii). 40- 1 Cen-
eral Asssntiy.

13 ran. 3 iv.. sMitt nk. 4 (Winner bey getd
mg by Mayan out ol Bmtaewmg. trained by
M Baa Nevwrarta tor &r Thomas Wto^en)
■fate: £640: £150, £240 DF £1620
CSF. £3563 Trtcaa £«3a5 Tnfecta £9150

4.15; (71 3yo fMw rrsiden stales)

1. CASSANDRA GO M Roberts 7-1

£ Musical Tree! J Fortune 2-1 few

3. Insinuate X Faflon 3-1

Also rare 13-2 Rfcrtoa. KM SUaW (4tti) i? 1

Goto Anga. w-i Moss Rose. 30 t
tnona. En Stenca Spoonful Ol Sugar. K-i
Chambn? Separee. 33-1 Fantastic Bern:- (5ih)
Pyart Barley (emi 40-1 Mas Umrorettv
14 ran. Mi, 1 V-. 1 V.. sh-m (Wnvwr prey (Site
oy Indian Ridge out ol Ratwm irasieo &y G
| a Newroertfit tor Trevor C Stewart). Tol*
£360. £130, 080 DF- £1410 CSF

t»85

4.«kjW Ig> Mas maiden states)

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2 Ptctaie Wfltaw.
3 Indeedyodo.

fl Muflan H-i
I Fortune I3-B tav
„K Fallon B-1

AMO ranTiM Seaiun (Btii). n -2 Lady Sfvte
(4th). tvt Nasaieb, 25-t Jamcetand (5th). 3>
t Erin Anam Cara. Never Cvsa Usa
e ran. V.. V),. Vi. l i 3 | Winner day "Mv «r
Sir Pekan out ol Mtss Kristin, immed WMM
a NBwmarttf kx D F Aiponi Tote: M2 90
ezsa £150, £150, DF: £1620 CSF. C377D

5JZU On 3yo maiden stales)

1. SWEET EMOTION G Carter B-1

2. Cltwtfy SKy R HUM 11-1

3 Snowy Range W Ryan 11-1

Also rab: Tav Octam (BHil. 4-i Easrern

Cnamp u-2 Koraaa. M-i Haitotyan Danoer
|4lh) r*i-i Spanker (5tta) I WjKtonWB
no*. »-i Oro Slreec 33-1 Ftoman CantSft 50-n
harnga Pfac*

12 ran. v».. 27.. 17.. 17.. tWinnw bay cofl

by Sadler s rifate out at Dancing Shadow,
irameo by E txn*» *0 Ntvnrrmr1«:i fw Lord
Vtonaockf TWa: nsoo. C4JO £380 £370 DF:
raaaa cSf. ce&oa

Jackpot; No) mm: C47J77&42 earned forward
O ftewmarVei today
PtecepoL C44M Quadpot C940
Place 6- £5036 Place 5; £3034

CHELTENHAM

<3ong. Good

2.20: 1. ACT IN TIME (R VtoVtoy] lt-2 lair. 2.
SpectaSze 3 1 . 3 ZaHoon 9- 1 : 4. Raraaneaqua
20-1 IB raa 4 (T Gecroa. Stroudl wta: K70.
ClrtO £Tt»a C16Q £860. Cf C329Q '^F: C42M
Tncas) C35B07 m Cairtac Awesi
2-55: 1. GIG) BEACH (J Team) 4-1 tav. 2.
Moorland Highflyer Q-2: 3. The Gopher T2-1
10 ran. . ■& IP Nctafa. 9*pwi UfiM) Tble:
cidftCioociiacajoDF-reaocsF c?m

Tncaa C25tL?l

3 30 1. CONNOR MACLEOD pt OumwwMyl
6- 1 . 2. Slonn Casda «■ t . a. yyamotrs Fancy
n -a ts» 9 ran. 7. 3 (Mrs J Pitman Upper Lam-
tnjurni Tote: £590. CtBO £330 CIO W:
£433Q CSF. 0371

4.05: 1 . YOU'RE AGOOOUN {A P UcCoyl 5-1
ter. 2. Greycoat Boy «-i ; i. Hotoom H» «-i .
4. LTdefui 8-1 16 ran. 5. 7r (M P*>e Wattng-
lom Tote: £460, £170 IA3U CS5a DOT DF.
£10fiia CSF C6SBI Tricsst CUB68&

4.35: 1. L’OPEHA (R Johnsoni ti- 2;Z Daray-
dan 7-2 tav. x Call My Guest 7-1 8 ran. IV .
t ID Nchoteon. Tempta Gutoogi 7LM: H20.
ClilO £160, £230 Of. £51Q CSF CZIB Tnc-
aa Cnitt

S.1 Or. 1 ALLGStn fT j Uuuryi 2-i 2 Maw Bird
fri. J. MasamstlBa 6-4 w B ran. 5. i (J OU,

wrougfim wtr. eaoi>. cwq ci7n elm df-

Cil 70 CSF- £12.46.

Ptectpot taSl Quadpot C6ifl
Place 8: C29B3 Place 5 £1133

BEVERLEY
Gomg. Good a Fstti

215: 1. GENUINE JOHN (H Winston) n-2 2
Wad) 9-4 tor 2 Batsman «-l 17 ran. ‘i. i
ij Par tes) Tote. £940. £4sa CtM. C76a df
(n» CSF 0796

24&1,2ULAL<KDarteyt2-i tav, 2 Little Amin
8 1 : 3. Open Aime 20-1 :4. Buttorecoteh 20-1

16 ran. HI 2. (E Dunfcip) Tbte: £290: Cita E24Q
C67P C840 DF. COM CSF. £2057. Trices

raon

32tt. 1. RIVETt Tries (K Darley) lQ-!:2Lnt-
akmne 7-1 . a Granpmiae 3 1 tav a ren. 1 rA.
■fam|ai2D: C2 sq e2iq ct40 df-

3-55. 1. TARA'S GIRL iD Memeqh) 1-2 lav: 2
Kind Emperor 9-1. 3. Gain 71m» B-l 13 ran.
27 13 tkmn) Tote: ES2D. Cisa £4DQ C240

DF £630 CSF E27B4
425: 1. SWEET HAVEN |T Wfcrrol 10-1. 2
Cm* now. And Angels 3- 1 jr tav, 3. Desert Sa-
fari 7-1 12 ran, 3-1 )t tav Xwioa v;„ ■> (V*
HeaaFvflfe) Tola: C2L40- W7Q ti9Q £20Q DF-
£49 ?0 C-3f. £4153 NR happy Happy
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24/FOOTBALL

THE INDEPENDENT
Thursday 15 April 1599

c Golden Canary memories Fulham

Ken

Jones

A LETTER came the other day

that brought back a time before
the dose proximity of sport to
the financial section in nation-
al newspapers became appro-
priate.

It was from Norwich City
Football Club requesting my
presence on Saturday at a din-
ner in honour of men whose in-
spired play in the spring of
1939 almost took a middle-of-
the-road Third Division dub to
the FA Cup final

By the time Norwich came
up against Luton Ttown in a
semi-final at White Hart Lane
after remarkable victories over
Manchester United, Cardiff
City, Tottenham Hotspur and
Sheffield United, they were es-
tablished as the most accom-
plished giant-killers in FA Cup
histoiy.

Yet such was the state of af-
fairs at C arrow Road three
months earlier that the club’s
manager, Archie Macaulay, a
distinguished former Scottish
international, was barricaded in
his office while disgruntled sup-
porters protested in the street
outside.

Norwich's League form was
poor they had struggled to
overcome an amateur dub. Il-
ford, in the first round and only
just got past Swindon in a home
replay.

No wonder that the task-in
my first year as a sports re-
porter - of covering Norwich’s
home third-round tie against
Manchester United for the
Daily Mirror did not have
much appeal personally. “Get
on with it," I was told bluntly. “It
will be good experience."

United were still recovering
from the awful tragedy that had
overtaken them at Munich just
short of 12 months earlier, but
there was nothing to suggest

’Jfc" VX:v .-f: - - . ' : v- *£: g '• :■ *\ : *v ' > - - - ’ (S .

FULHAM HAVE denied sug-
gestions that their ownec Mo-
hamed A1 Fayed, is set to offer
Kevin Keegan a new three-

BY Kderan Daley

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The Norwich City goalkeeper Ken Nethereott keeps his goal intact during the Canaries' fifth-round draw at Tottenham in 1959 Doily Mirror

that I was in for more than a
routine assignment

Instead, the reverberating
shock of Norwich's 3-0 victory
foretold the FA Cup's most ro-
mantic story. Suddenly, they
were a team transformed by
sensation. Their captain, the
solid, intelligent full-back Ron
Ashman, who later managed the
dub and developed Kevin Kee-
gan at Scunthorpe, would say.
“It's still difficult to work out
what happened to us. One
minute we were findin g things
hard in the League and lucky to
still be in the cup. Then
overnight we had this conviction
that we could beat anyone.

“Ybu see, itwasftjust that we
had taken United to the clean-

ers and that one or two of them
went missing on a frozen pitch.
We had good players in our
team, very good players who
wouldn't have been out of their
depth in the First Division.

“We weren’t a kick-and-rush
team and it just needed some-
thing to set it all off Beating
Manchester United did that for
us. It's a big advantage to be
drawn at home in the FA Cup,
but as time went on we honest-
ly believed we could win any
where and against anyone.”

After overcoming Cardiff
City from the Second Division
in the next round, Norwich
were drawn away at Tbitenham,
who would soon be transformed
themselves, going on from a

depressing season to win the
League and Cup double two
years later.

More than 20,000 fans, almost
double the number who had
watched Norwich’s ragged start
to the season, travelled to cheer
their team in London. Norwich
was gripped by Cup fever. Work
schedules had gone haywire
and there was not a citizen who
could not repeat the mournful
ye t oddly inspiring lyric of the
terrace anthem: “On the Ball
City.” The city lived for the next
match. Exiles flocked back to
Carrow Road to take part in the
mass adulation of the Canaries.

Saved by Cliff Jones' late
equaliser, Tottenham did not
carry much optimism into the

replay and were defeated. Their
captain. Danny Blanchflower,
declared: “I have played all
over the world, in some of the
world's great stadiums, but I
have never experienced an at-
mosphere like that."

A draw against Sheffield
United at Bramall Lane in the
sixth round, when Norwich
hung on with their goalkeeper
Ken Nethereott injured, set up
another emotional night in Nor-
folk. Immediately the whistle
blew to announce Norwich's ad-
vance to the semi-finals. I got
a message from the Mirror:
“Front page piece - now," the
voice said.

In receipt cf a similar request
the famed Daily Express sports

columnist Desmond Hackett
ad-libbed wondrous tales of sup-
porters getting a dray horse
drunk and cars being swapped
for match tickets - none of them
true, but put around often
enough in the wee small hours
to be credible when printed.

The run ended when Nor-
wich went out 1-0 to [Alton in a
semi-final replay at Birming-
ham after drawing at White
Hart Lane. So strong is the
bond in those players that Errol
Crossan is coming from Van-
couver Matt Crowe from South
Africa and Roy McCrohan from
Florida. It cannot be imagined
that, in 40 years’ time, any of
today’s te ams will feel a simi-
lar attachment.

Division.

Keegan’s current deal as
f chief operating officer runs out
in the summer of 2000 when he

is tipped to take on the full-time
role of England coach. And Ai

Fayed is said to be reluctant to

let down England's supporters
by offering Keegan new terms
at Craven Cottage.

“It [the offer] is just hearsay
Just speculation," a Etilham
spokesman said yesterday.
“Kevin said last night that he
had six games left for FUlham
rtiis season and he reiterated
his commitment to see out his
contract with Fhlham. That is
the situation."

After earning promotion to
the First Division on Tuesday
night with a 3-0 victory over
Gillingham, the Londoners
are confident they will reach
the Premiership ahead of
schedule. A place in the top di-
vision was the key element of
Keegan's five-year plan for
the club.

“The Premiership is achiev-
able for anyone in the First Di-
vision," the spokesman said.

Keegan spelled out the rea-
sons why he will be staying at
Fhlham next season, saying he
would miss the day-to-day in-
volvement with players if he
took on the England job full-
time.

“I don't think you can ever
get that same sort offeelingfbr
En gland - England comes and
goes; you’ve got 12 games a
year. I think a lot of managers
have said in the past that what
they really miss is that day-to-
day involvement and 1 suppose
I would as weft," be said.

The most likely scenario re-
mains that the Football Asso-
ciation will allow Keegan to
continue his dual role with dub

aj^counti7i»^Jmrear^mfn
the Euro 2000 finals. ; \ ;

Meanwhile, Kevin Phillips *■
has set his sights on matching
the Premiership’s best marks-
men after shooting Sunder-
land backinto the top fBgit The
25-year-old striker’s four-goal
salvo in the 3-2 win at Bury oa
Tuesday night ensured Ms
side's return to the top flight
after an absenceaf twoseasobs.
It also took him past the 20-goal
mar k far the season despite jan

injury lay-off of three anda half
months.

Phillips, picked up by Peter
Reid for a bargain-basement-
£300,000 from Watford in'Jnly
1997, is now relishing the .
chanceto prove him^fa©Mnst.
the best defences in the coun-
try. He is refusing to be over-
awed by the prospect of lining -
up against the likes of Jaap
Stain, Tony Adams and Frank
Leboeuf and has set a araflar.
goal target next season.

“I set ny target at 20, and the
way the team has been {Saying
at the Stadium of Light we cre-
ate so many chances," be said.

Sunderland’s victory atGgg
T.anp may have clinched pro-
motion, but there are stfflfonr:-
more First Division games. ;

Sunderland should dmch
the championship at Barnsley .
on Friday night when simply .
avoiding defeat would see their '
captain. Kevin Ball presented
with the trophy following .-the 1
last home game of the season
against Birmingham on Sunday
9 May Phillips has now re-
vised his own personal aims for
what is left of the season.

*1 enjoy playing the games,
and we want to finish the sea-
son on a high,” he said. “We're
up now but we still need a
point to clinch the champi-

nil

fe'-V'"-"'

** : J- - • -

winning every game. We wanr«i
to get 100 points and score as
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United

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THERE MAY be an added in-
centive for Manchester United
to overcome Juventus in next
Wednesday's European Cup
semi-finaL Zinedine Zidane,
the Juve midfielder so admired
by the United manager Alex
Fferguson, said yesterday that
the 'Ruin giants' fortunes in the
Champions' Cup could deter-
mine whether he decides to
stay with the Serie A club.
Zidane, the star of France's
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BY TOMMY STANI FORTH

and Christian Dailly. Both long-
term absentees have been
inactive for four months but are
in the squad for Saturday’s
crucial relegation encounter
with Southamptoa Gallacheris
fit after a calf complaint while
Dailly has recovered from a
ruptured thigh.

The Newcastle defender
Steve Howey could be out of the
game for up to eight months
after rupturing his Achilles
tendon during Sunday’s FA
Cup semi-final victory over Tot-
tenham. Howey’s inclusion at
Old TVafford was something of
a gamble after a month out with
a calf problem, but no one could
have predicted the misfortune
which brought his departure on
a stretcher before half-time.

Howey said “The good news
is that it is not connected with
the calf injury that plagued me
for such a long time. 1 have been
given a definite time frame for
recovery, and that cuts out all
the agony of living in hope.

“I am going to be out for
eight months and, naturally, 1
am very disappointed, but it
gives me a chance for a rest. I
will take my family abroad in
the next week or so and I'll be
ready to start again during
next season."

European football’s govern-
ing body, Uefe has announced
that that it will plough 35 mil-
lion Swiss francs (£l4.7m) into
the sport this season.

It said that a flat sum of
200,000 Swiss francs ($134,700'
will be paid at the end of the
dubs share in Rome. season to all of Uefa ’s 51 mero-

fioma, technically the home -her. associations. Additional
team for the match, were fined payments will go to dubs elim-
25 million lire (£8^75) and Lazio inated in the two qualifying
20 million lire (£7,125). Lazio phases of the Champions’
^ '■ - Cji 3^0 learned they will be with- League and all national champ-

out their captain, Alessandro iansroho did not take partin the
Nesta, for three games. He
was handed the lengthy sus-
pension for a tackle on Roma's
Francesco Totti, and an ensu-
ing argument with the referee.

Lario’sthree other starting
defenders - Paolo Negro,

Giuseppe Pancaro and Sinisa
Mihqjtovic - all received one-
game suspensions, meaning

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said he is happy at Juventus,
but hinted that he might look
elsewhere if they fail to win
Europe's premier dub compe-
tition this season.

ffldane said; “Ftimily is more
important for me than footbalL
I have never hidden the feet
that there are problems living
in Turin although not with the
did). I am fine at Juventus. It
does not bother me if some of
my team-mates are better paid
than me. I am already happy
with what I have got, Z am
happy at Juventus because I
have a contract until 2004.”

However in a dear reference
to Juve’s European Cup cam-
paign, Zidane said: “Let's just
finish this season and then we
win see according to the results
we have.'’

The Italian league’s disci-
plinary panel has fined Roma
and Lazio more than $25,000
(£16.000) for racist signs dis-
played in the stands during
the dubs’ derby on Sunday.
7* je league held the teams
a^-ountable for what it called
“racially discriminatory” flags
and banners on display at the
Olympic. Stadium, which the

competition.

Chibs eliminated at, or be-
fore, the second round stage of
this season's Cup- Winners’ Cup
and Uefa Cup will also receive
additional payments.

Poland will be the biggest
beneficiary, receiving a cut of
123 million francs, followed by
Romania and Yugoslavia, who

the Serie A leaders will have to will each receive 1.15 million.

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use four reserves for their key
game bn. Saturday against
Juventus.

At home, Brian Kidd was
given some welcome news for
his struggling Blackburn
Rovers side last night with the
pturaaf both Kevin Gallacher

FI designer

Postlethwaite

dies aged 55

MOTOR RAC IN G

HARVEY POSTLETHWAITE, a
leading figure in Formula One
race car design and engineer-
ing, has died at the age of 55, the

Honda team announced yes-
terday. Postlethwaite died of a
heart attack on Tuesday night
in Barcelona, Spain, where he
w* overseeing a test session
vJt Honda's new can

Postlethwaite started his Fl
career in 1971 with March En-
gineering and designed the car
which James Hunt drove to vic-
tory for the Hesteth team in the
Dutch Grand Pits, at Zand-
voortin 1975.

In 1981 Postlethwaite joined
Ferrari and designed a chassis
for the Italian team’s new tur-
bocharged engine. He returned
to Britain in 1988 with Tyrrell.
His raised-nose car design of
1990 revolutionised Fl aerody-
namics and is a standard fea-
ture of single-seater design.

, Postlethwaite joined Honda

f as technical director of its ex-
ploratory Fl project
He is survived by his wife,
. Cherry, and two children, Ben
[j jfd Amey.

The team manager; Eddie
Jordan, yesterday led the trib-
utes to Postlethwaite. saying:
“Harvey was an academic and
true gentleman. He was al-
ways so committed and enthu-
[ siastic. This is a sad blow to
{ Formula One.”

San Marino will get 200,000
francs, followed by Liechten-
stein and Andorra with 280,000
and Spain with 360,000. The
Worid Cup champions. France,
will net 590,000 francs, while
England are set to receive
680,000.

BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE: Boston 6 Chicago
White 5ra ft Tampa Bay B "taronto 6: NY Yan-
kees 6 Baltimore 3: Oakland 3 Anaheim 2.
■fecas 15 Seattle 6.

NATIONAL LEAGUE: Mitwauhee 8 Mon-
treal 4: 5t Louis 4 Pittsburgh 2: Arizona 7
losAngetes6ff6&intogsr. Houston? San
Francisco 3.

BASKETBALL
NBA: Cleveland 86 Wtoningron 77: Miami
90 Chicago 7k; New York 91 Philadelphia
72; Portland l 13 LA Lakers 85; Dallas 92
San Antonio 86; Milwaukee 9 1 Atlanta 84.
LA dippers 109 New Jersey 101: Utah 105
Sacramento 100 tot)

BOWLS

MEN’S ALL ENGLAND CHAMPION-
SHIPS (Melton Monbray): Triples,
■eml-nnelB: Blackpool Borough (N Bur-
rows) bt Grantham ID Auckland) 17-16;
Chipping Norton [LGUiettl bt Stanley (J lee-
man) 10-13. Heal: Blackpool Borough IN
Burrows) bt Chipping Norton (LGllett) 19-
1 1. Pairs, drat round: Folkestone bt 8?w-
ertands 32-5; South Forest tw Havant
25-20; A cie br Ybrh Si District 18-17:
Wymandtiam Dell bt Beniham 25-11;
North VWBbtEwnifl 20-19: Blackpool Bor-
ough bt Cumbria 22-16; BarWngbt Cyphers
22- la; Handy Cross bt FalalsezS- 1 9; Ply-
mouth bt Lawson Fbrk 22-21.

WOMEN'S WORLD INDOOR CHAMP-
IONSHIP (Presmkb): Section A: C
McAlister (Sco) bt K Horman (Jersey) 7-3

4- 7 7-4; A Doggart (Irf) bt A Davies tW»|

5- 7 7-6 7-4; McAmsrer bt Davies 2-7 7-2
7-4; Herman M Doggart 7-2 7-0. Section
Bi M Castle (NZ) btT Jones (Jersey) 7-3 7-

YESTERDAY
PEA WORLD YOUTH
CHAMPIONSHIP
SECOND ROUND

Rep of Irf (1J .1 Nigeria (0) 1

Suiter 36 Iked la 71

14.000

net Nigeria win 5-3 on penalties
(at Kano, Nigeria)

Other de (Kaduna): Ghana 2 CcntaRJca
0.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE
FOIST DIVISION
Postponed: Clydebank v Ayr.
UNB30NP LEAGUE Fine Division:
Postponed: Hueknall Tchmi v Harrogate
16wn,

AVON INSURANCE CORBWATION
First DMsIon: OPR 5 Fulham 1 ; Cam-
bridge 3 Brentford 0.

PONTTN5 LEAGUE Second Dhrfetfam:

Bradford 0 Shrewsbury 1 . Third DM-
don: Chesterfield 5 Halifax O'. Hull O
Scunthorpe 3; Rochdale 1 Chester 2: Wal-
sall 4 Bury 3. Postponed: Hartlepool v
Carlisle.

jav, ■

Zinedine Zidane, of Joventas, who may leave the Turin club at the end of the season

Irish suffer penalty misery

NIGERIA, THE hosts, scraped
into the quarter-finals of the
World Youth Championships in
Kano yesterday when they beat
the Republic of Ireland 5-3 on -
penalties after the match ended
l-l in normal time.

Ireland, the European
champions, opened the scoring
after 35 minutes in the Sani
Abacha stadium through MUl-
wan’s Richard Sadlier and then
dominated play for most of the
first-half. In the second half
Nigeria applied more pressure
and created a host of chances,
finally resulting in an equalis-
er after 71 minutes through
Pius Ikedia.

The match went into extra
time but neither side was able
to break through and it went to
penalties. With the Nigerians
scoring all their penalties, Ire-
land went out after the goal-
keeper. Sam Okoye blocked
Thomas Heary's effort. The
-win puts Nigeria into the last
eight, where they will play the

I; M Lurham (Sco) bz P Nctait UriJ 7-3 7-
0; Castle bt Nolan 6-7 7-6 7-4; Leitiam bi
Jones 7-5 7-2. Section C S 5mirii (Can)
bt L Hartwell ISA) 7-1 7-5; A Simon
(Guernsey) bt K Adams (Sco) 0-7 7-5 7-0.

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i O: L Sjntin (HKi br M Jones IWfcn)
7-2 4-7 7-2; A Menlen (Guernsey) bt M
Sweroiovv (ter) 3-7 7-2 7-4.

CRICKET

SHARJAH CUP TRIANGULAR SERIES
(SMr|ab. UAE, eacrdiy metefa)

Pakistan mm toss

PAKISTAN

Shahid Afriid run out 5

Saeed Anwar c Jadeia b Agarkar . . 25

Wajahacullah Ittuti c Jadeia b Agarkar ..37

10a Ahmed Ibw b humble 8

Insamam-ul-Haq run .out a

Salim Main, c DrawkJ 0 Ptasad 50

iMoin man e Joshl b Jade0 54

'Wadm Akram run out 1

Azhar Mahmood c Singh b Jade0 6

Soqlain Mushcaq not out >

Shoatb Akhur not out 2

Extras (1b7 nb5) 12

Ibtal (Mr 9. SO wm) JOS

ftH: 1-16 2-34 3-45 4-50 5-110 6-183
7-1B4 8-200 9-202.

Bem/ttne Prasad 10-0-45-1. Agarkar 10-
1-41-2iKumbJe 10-3-27-1. Slnen 10-1-26-
0, Joshl 7-0-40-0: Jadeja 3-0-19-2

INDIA

A R Khurasiya b Shoalb Akhur 5

SRamesh run oul 82

R 5 Dravld run out BI

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b Shoafc Akhrar 3

R 5lngh nor out 7

V G Kambll not out 9

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Tstal (for 4, 48.1 overs) - 206

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winners of today's Mali-
Cameroon match.

Nigeria were joined in the
quarter-finals by the African
champions, Ghana who beat
Costa Rica 2-0. Peter Ofori-
Quaye scored his third goal in
the championship as his coun-
try progressed.

Ofori-Qtiaye weaved through
the Costa Rican defence in the
79th minute to become the
competition’s joint top scorer
with Cameroon's Gaspard
Komol and Germany's Enrico
Kern.

Owusu Afriyie had set
Ghana on their way to a quar-
ter-final tie with either Spain or
the United States when he
scored from long range in the
18th minute.

Costa Rica played some neat
possession football but rarely
threatened Ghana's goal To
add to their disappointment,
their defender, Roberth Arias.

SPORTING DIGEST

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Did not bac A B Agarkar. IN R Mongia 5
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Borrilngr. Wasim Akram 10-1 -39-1*. -Jvjoib
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47-0, Azlui Uaimx-u'.'d 10-1-35-0. Shahid
Alndi 8-0-32-0. wajdHsrullari Wasri 0 I-O-
*■0

INDIA WCW BV SIX WICKETS

India and Pakistan hove already qualified
tar Friday's final

Umpires: □ B Harr I Am) and I D Pobuur.rt
|Zlm|.

CYCLING

FLEOfE-WALLONNE RACE (200km): 1

M Bar loll (111 Mapei 4hr 5 2 min hSsrr. 2 M
Den Bakker (Nedi) Rabct<ank + i«w. 3 M
Aerts (Bel) LciCto-MoMsTAr + Jmin 06sec.
4 O Canien^nd (Sivli) +3.1 3. 5M Boo^d
(Nemi +-3:34.6U Bolrs (Gei) +340.7M
Vfcto (It) +3:42. B k Moerenhoui |Nrih)
+ 3:45. 9 J VUgt (Ger) +3 48: 10 P
SavoklHii (It) +3^3.

EQUESTRIANISM
PCRA PRE-BADMINTON DRESSAGE
AND 5HOW JUMPING CHALLENGE
(Grange Farm Equestrian Centre, Uflt-
Mrbie, Cambs): 1 SwLule In (A Hoy. Aui)
30.1 3; 2 Watenmil Stream (B Ovmewh.
Ger] 32 80: 3 Darien Powers (A Hoy Am)
32.93: A Regal Sto> |M T L rid. N2i. 5
Oyster field (B Tail. N2\ 38.20. 6 West-
ern Reef (W Ftn-pin. GS) 39 43

FOOTBALL

England Under - 1 6 will play Hungary.
Sweden and Slovakia m then initial
group when they compete in the Eu-

was sent off for a second book-
able offence.

Ronaldo, called up to play for
Brazil for the first time since the
Worid Cup final in France last
summer, hopes to turn around
his disappointing season by
playing in the Copa America in
July.

On Tuesday Ronaldo was
included in the Brazil side to
meet his former dub Barcelona
at their Nou Camp stadium in
a friendly match on 28 April.
The Intemazionale player, who
has only recently recovered
from a debilitating knee injury'
that has undermined his sea-
son, said he was thrilled to re-
turn for Bra2ii] after falling ill
before the Paris final last July;
won by France 3-0.

“This is more than great - it
is beautiful." Ronaldo said. “I
can now put back on the jersey
I have missed so much and it
will be wonderful to be able to
cancel out that memory of the
Worid Cup final when I play

ropean Championship finals in the
Czech Republic later rhis month.

ENGLAND UNDER-16 SQUAD (Euro-
pein Under-2 1 Championship finals,

impionshlp i

■» 2 S April):
|W»h], Rldu

i Republic, sard
I'JitBw). Haworth |
iL'.vlsi Pamaby (MnUiesbfouph). Clarke
(Eveiton). Hylton (AM on Villa). JenklitS
iWimbierton). McHUxm (Leeds). O'Brien
(LwipucJi. Sxmdd iManchestef Uid). Brit-
con (Chelse-a). Ha ms haw (ShelNeld
Wr'lnrtdayl. Davb iManchnler U'dl.
Knight iCheiscai, Bothreyd lArsenal).
Fallon I Barnsley l. Defoe (Qurlion). Dories
l Sonina inpioni. Bewers [Aston Vil/o|.
Farrell iLeect;i strung squad wiU be
nHuccd to 1 Boiler next neck 's framing j «■
'•>.■<101 »7f Lilies hall)

Ryan Gnren. the Welsh mtei nation-
al. has signed a new three-year con-
uacr with Wolves.

The Scottish Premier League has
switched the programme for the last
day of the season to Sunday 2 3 May
All five matches will kick-off at
6.05pm. with Sky TV yet ro decide
which one they will screen live.

ICE HOCKEY

NHLi tjrrpa Bay 2 Mortieal 2 (Of), PniL
adeipnu 2 Buffalo 2 tail

RUGBY UNION
TUESDAY’S LATE R&5ULT5: Allied
Dunbar Premiership One: Wasps 15
Northampton Jewson National
League Two North: Nuneaton 36 Uch-
fieU 42 AIB League Second Division:
B.illynahlni:h 21 Dungannon 27

Barcelona,” he was quoted as
saying in the Gozzetta deflo
Sport, an Italian daily newspa-
per. yesterday.

“It is a joy that I dedicate to
myself -I think I deserve it after
all Fve been through - and I
think it’s good for Inter who
have never stopped believing
that I could return to my old
form," he added.

Inter have sorely missed
Ronaldo and his goal-scoring
abilities this season. They have
fallen to the middle of Serie A
and crashed out of the quarter-
finals of the European Cup last
month after a demoralising de-
feat by Manchester United.

Ronaldo, who has played
two full games in a row for the
first time in months, said be
was slowly regaining his form.

“I hope to play in the Copa
America, it would be the best
ending to a horrible season," he
said. “But for now I’ve still got
to try to make it a little less hor-
rible for Intec"

SNOOKER

RILEY UR TOUR (Stockport) Semi-
finals: i Reynolds (WaJ) bt M Husnu (Cyp)

5- 4. J Ferguson (Eng) bt P Lines (Eng) 6-

2 Rnal: ReynoWs bt Ferguson 6-4.

SPEEDWAY

TUESDAY’S LATE RESULT BriEfsb Un-
der-2 1 Leagne (Isle of Mitotic) Semi-fi-
nal: 1 P Lee 14; 2 D Bud 1>: 3 M Read
12. A S 5iead 1 1. 5 C Farts 10 Ail quali-
fy fit British Under-2 1 final.

TENNIS

JAPAN OPEN (Tokyo) Men's singles
second round: J Knippscnild (Ger) be M
Ctvmg (US; 6-3 6-4; (A Sell lUSl bt G tWy
tcniuta (Japan) 6-7 (6-8) 6-4 6-3: W Fer-
reira (5A) bt D van Sctiepplngen (Neth) 7-6

6- 3: D Prinosll (Ger) bt C Mamli (US) 6-2
6-3. L Burgsmuller iGerl bt 0 Week (Ct
Rep) 6-2 7-5: S Schalken (Netbl bt O Gross
(Ger) 6-4 6-2: K Garten |Den| bt W Arthurs
|Aus| 6-4 6-2; D Nestor (Can) br M Till-

Strom (5wej 6-2 6-2: R Krajicek (Netfl) b(
J van LOtium (Neid) 3-1 ret: T Johansson
(Swe) bt H Kaneko (Japan) 6-3 6-3; 5
Lareau (Can) bt B Black (Zim) 6-3 7-5: M
Krefer (Ger) br P Srlcnaprun fi hai) 6-2 6-
3: J BKjriuiian |Swe) bt L TTeleman (It) 6-

3 6-3: T Enqvisl I5we) bt R Srepaneh (Cz

' ‘ " Pozzl (lt| bi P GoWsteln

Rep) 7-6 6-4; Q
1U5)

IU5) 6-4 4-6 6-4; 0 Kartoacher IGer) bt D
Diluda (US) 7-6 6-2. Women's singles
first round: 5 De Beer ISA) bt M Mlyauchi
(Japan) 4-6 6-3 6-4. JChi (USJ bt C Vbon-
Jeorg (Kor) 6-4 6-1. M Washinmcn (US)
bt H Collin (GB) 6-4 £-3: A Sugiyama
(Japan) bt W Prakusya (Indnn) 6-1 6-3. C
Morariu (US1 bt M Maiuska (Aut) 6-3 6-

FOOTBALL RESULTS

TUESDAY'S LATE
RESULTS

NaUoiiMide League First Division:

Bolton 1 Bristol Oty 0: Bury 2 Sunderland
5: Grimsby 1 Queen's Park Rangers 0: Port
Mate 1 Bradford Oty 1; West Biom I Swin-
don 1 . Second DMUok Blackpool 0 Bum-
ley 2; Bournemouth 0 Walsall 1 ; Fulham 3
Gillingham 0; Lincoln Gty 2 Reading 2: Mac-
clesfield 2 Chesterfield 0; Northampton 7
York 2; Notts County l Wrexham >. Old-
ham 2 Bristol Rovers 1; Wigan 2 Preston
2. TMrd DhfaJen: Brighton 1 Shrewsbury
0: Cambridge Utd I Rochdale I ; Carlisle 0
Hull ft Chester 1 Brentford 3; E new 3
Rotherham ft Leyton Orient 4 Phtmourn 3:
Mansfield 0 Halifax 1: Scunthorpe 1 Pe-
rertjmugh 1. Southend 0 Cardiff 1. 5wansea
1 Hartlepool ft tor quay 1 Barnet i . Na-
Cleunvlde Coofirttm: Cheltenham I
tQngsionbn 0: Hayes I HcdnesfordO. Rush-
den 1 YbovH2: Telford 1 Southport 0. Pos«-
(MMMtf; Leek v Welling Hyman League
P rem i er DMaiow Heybrldge 2 Bramlev
i; Slough 2 Aldershot 2; Sutton Utd I
Grawsend l; Walton & Hersham 2 Biis-
Ingscoke J: Carshaiton 1 Hendon 3. Fine
Dfvtsion: Chertsey l Canvey island 1 ; Ljy-
ton Fhmnant 3 Maidenhead i; Whyreieafe
I Heading 3. Pouposed: Grays v Staines:

Romford v Hltthin Second DtvMon:
Bare. lead 1 Tboring 6 Mitcnam I. Edgwarr
2 Abingdon Town l; Hertfcvd 0 Wokingham
1; Horsham 1 Whirnhoe 3. Norihwood 3
Hungerford 1: Thame 3 Hailow 0. Wind-
sor fi: Eton 2 Leighton 1 . VWtnam 2 Mer Po-
l»te 2. Third DMsfon: Camberiev > Funl
Utd 0. Corinthian Casuals 3 Tiffjury -<
Hornchurch 3 Diking o Dr Martens
League Premier Division: Cram horn !
Has trigs 2; Gr&dcy Rovers 1 Rothwdl Tuwn
3: Halesowen town 4 Ilkeston 'Sawn f hing's
Lyrm 0 Atnerstone 0. Lctreuc Cup final flrat
Hgi Cambridge Oiy 0 butiw Coldfield 0.
Midland Division: Cinder ford b 8k»wKh

1. Clevedon 0 Hinckley Utd 1- WL-sron-sn-
pei-Mare 1 SoHnull I Southern DfvteJon:
Ashford Town 4 BratkJcy 1. Cir>rficesttr 1
Vbte 1. Havant 6 watericTufihe •) Liwnns-
ford 3. Newport (loWl 2 Aivj^ei 0 Roun-
ds 3 Corby i : Tonbr ugp 0 Wimey 7. Maif.in*
I Fleet 2. UnJBond League Premier Dl-
ririoa: Cotwyn Bay 2 Worksop 2 Leign RM1
0 Bamber Budge I. Marine i Runcorn a
Spennymow l Gainsborough 1 . Whirbv 4
Frkkley ft Wlrtsford 7 Atciington Sianiev

2. First DMsIon: DfOylsden 2 Gretna 1
Easrwood Town I Farslev Ccflis I. Lincoln
Utd I WWHey ftiy 0- Tralford I Wiinm Ai
bion l Postponed: Radcliffe v Alfieion
League Cup semi-finals; EUytn Spar rare
OGulselcy z. StaiybudgeCeinc i nncin.ili

I Interlink Express Midland Football
Alliance: Bridgnorth Town 0 CJiaserown 0,
King’s Norton Town 2 Knyperaley Victoria
0. ifapenhill 2 Willenlull Town 2, Stratford
Town 1 Rushall Olympic ft West Midlands
FWice 5 '.Hdbnry Utd 2 Northern Coun-
ties Eastern League Premier Division:
O.H forth Town j Auntnorpe Welfare 1.
Honh Feuiby Uld I Brigs fawn ?. Picker-
ing I own 2 Llversedge 4 Jeurson Eastern
League Premier DfufsJoa: Diss Town 2
Wnrtviys 3. Ely Oty 2 Goriesion 0; New-
m.irkci Town I Wreoham 1. Woodbnd.ge
Tc-wn 0 Fakenham town u Postponed:
I "weMoK Ttiiim v SutSmry W.inaeiets Md-
c!on l.-.wn » Haiwich 6 Porhcsion Ufln-
stenlead Kent League Premier Division:
Sirippvy Ura J OjlTjwn 3. Tuntifidge Weils
i Beckenham Tovtn 1. Uldjet
County League First Division: Pcmficid
5 WrI 0 Uhlsport United Counties
League Cup nnal Nru Leg; Sroifold 3
Buckingnani Town d Soewftx Direct
league Premier Division! Backwell Utd 0
Bristol Mam .4 Farm u Behop Suiton 3 heyn-
%aim I I.Imore 2 Yeoml IzTmi 0. Mel ks ham
0 Mangnisheld u Pauiion Rc<ver$ 1 Bris-
luigiiMi 4, Wesihury 4 rain* u. Tiverton
Bndgwaiei 0 Harp Lager National
League of Ireland Premier Division: Finn
Harps 4 viuimiock Rovers 1 Irish League
Coca-Cola League Cup Semi-finals:

Cliftunvllle 1 Linfiefd 2: ulenioran 1 Car-
nck Rangers 0 League of Wales: Car-
marthen Town 1 Man Lido 1. TN5
Uansant/fioid 1 Ccowy4 Postponed: Con-
fkth’s Guay v Newtown. Gilbert League
Cup Semi-final: Ekirry Town 3 inter Cable-
Tel Cardiff 1 Pandits League premier M-
vlsion: Birmingham 1 Aston Villa 3.
Liverpool 3 Leeds 2. Manchesw Uid 0
Leicester 2. First Division: Coventry 3
Sheffield Wednesday 0 The Times FA
Vouch Cup Sixth rocmd: Notiingham
Forest 2 Newcastle Utd 3. Ajnacc lusar-
aaee Norehem League Cup Semi-final;
MCHpt-th Town 0 Duitsion FB 0 \aoandaned
after 25 mm due to snow) North West-
ern Trains League First Dhriston: Maine
Road 1 Glossop North End 2. Post-
poned: Boride w Newcastle Town Jew-
son Wessex League: Fareham Town 5
Lowes Spcirrs 0 Lymingron b New Milton
i Newbury l German League: VfB
Slut (gar 1 0 Nuremberg 0. Eimracm Frank-
furt o Vfl Wolfsburg 1. We rder Bicmen

0 Hamburg SV 0. ichalke 04 1 Hansa Ro-
stock 0. haiserslawteni 2 Bayein Munich

1 Dutch League; A Z Alkanaar 3 NAC Bre-
aa ij Dutch Cup Semi-final: F*SV Etnd-
riciunn I Feu tuna Sittard 3 French
League; Rastw I [Peret 33i Sochaux 1
tBjuger 77) Rcrnnrt INonda II. Gousse
7fii WT lens 0

Branson’s
dilemma
over duty

Daily Mirror

THE LONDON BRONCOS have
given up hope of having their
new prop forward, Anthony
Seibold, on duty for Wembley
but they will not let their chair-
man off as lightly. The club yes-
terday withdrew its application
for special exemption for Sei-
bold to play on l May, despite
his having being signed after
the Challenge Cup deadline.

There was no support for ret-
rospective measures to allow
Seibold to play, although the
Rugby League Council is to lode
at the whole question of cup
registration, now that the com-
petition falls early in a summer
seasoa Any change will come
too late for the former Canberra
front-rower, however
Meanwhile, like a pair of
reluctant dancing partners,
Richard Branson and Shaun
Edwards were trying to per-
suade each other to take the
lead at Wembley. Branson, the
club's chairman, has been re-
luctant to adopt the ceremonial
role of leading out the side.

Yesterday, he urged
Edwards, the London captain,
who is uniibely to be able to play
because of a broken thumb, to
show the team the route from
dressing-room to pitch that he
knows so well from his 10 pre-
vious finals.

However, at the Broncos'
pre-Wembley press conference,
Edwards intervened on a
phone link to the holidaying
Branson to tell him in no un-
certain terms that it was his
job.

“We will be massive under-
dogs against Leeds and this is
not a time to be indecisive.’'
Edwards told him. “We’U make

RUGBY LEAGUE

By Dave Had field

the decision for you. Lead us
out at Wembley.*'

Branson is now likely to do
so, but the Broncos are to apply
to the Rugby League for the
club's vice-chairman, David
Hughes, to accompany him.

In further emotional scenes,
the London coach. Dan Stains,
broke down in tears when he
talked of the dub's achievement
in reaching its first Cup final

Wigan have brought their
spending on players' wages
down below their salary cap
limit and have had the money
withheld by the League last
season refunded.

Doncaster, bottom of the
Northern Ford Premiership,
have foiled in an audacious
attempt to sign their former
player Vila Matautia, on loan
from St Helens. The new Don-
caster coach. Carl Sanderson,
hoped to add the Samoan for-
ward to bis squad, but Saints'
Ellery Hanley says that he still
figures in his plans.

Sanderson has succeeded
in signing Joe Naidole from
Hunslet while Doncaster’s new
owners have had membership
of the League transferred to
them until the end of this
season.

The former Great Britain
captain and assistant coach at
St Helens until this season,
Mike Gregory, has returned to
dub coaching after being ap-
pointed to work alongside Les
Holliday at Swinton, only four
places above Doncaster in the
Premiership's lower reaches.

Bullets aim to
take best shot

THE BIRMINGHAM BULLETS
coach, Mike Fin gee hopes he
can force his dose friend Nick
Nurse out of contention for the
Budweiser Championship play-
offs, without the Manchester
Giants’ coach even sitting on
the bench for their play-off
quarter-final series.

Nurse served the first of a
two-game ban on Sunday when
the Bullets, who finished only
seventh in the League, beat the
runners-up 83-74 in the opening
dash of their best-of-three series.

And Nurse can only watch
again from the crowd tonight at
Manchester’s MEN Arena
when Bullets, the defending
champions, attempt to return to
Wembley in two weeks time.
Finger said: “I still think we are
huge underdogs, but we are def-
initely capable of winning now."

The victory was Birming-

2; L Nemeckova (Cz Rep) bt K SchlukeOir
(IIS) 7-5 6-4. Seared round: J Lee (Tahv)
bt J Wa tana be iuS) 7-6 6-3; Wang Srtl-dne
flarii)!* V YashCD Uapan) 6-1 6-4: T Meten
IUS) W S Asago# (Japan) 2-6 6-3 6-3; S
KJelfwa (Cz Rep) bt K Po [US1 7-5 4-6 6-
3: A Frazier (US) bi K-A Guse |Aus) 7-6 6-
0.

ATP

Imu, _

rasategui (Sp) bt A Portas (Sp) 7-6 2-6
6-1 ; M Rkw (Chilel bt A Pavel IRom] 3-6
6-3 6-2: A Costa [Sp] bt F Vicente (Sp) 6-
4 6-1: F Meligeni (Bra) bt J A Mann (CR)
6-2 6-2: F Squflian (Arg) bt V Kafelnikov
(Rus) 6-2 6-4; V Spadea (US) be P Sam-
pras (US) w/o: F Mantilla (Sp) bt A Mar-
tin |5pl 6-3 6-2: F Oauet (Sp) bt M Zabaleta
(Are) 6-3 6-3: C Moya (5pj bt G Puentes
(Sp) 6-3 4-66-3: T Robredo ISp) bt M Safin
(Rus) 1-6 6-4 6-4: J C Ferrero (Sp) bt B
UMiratfi (Cz Rep) 6-2 6-7 6-3.
GIROBANK TOUR (Doncaster? Men’s
singles, first rd: M 0 lames (Essex) bt S
Amey IDerbys) 5-7 6-3 6-2; P Loose
(Dorset) bi G Arber (Lancs) 6-0 7-5: C Ed-
mondson (Lancs) bt P Magg* (Aron) 6-2
3-6 6- 1 : R Hanger (Dorset )bc B McManus
(Kent) 7-5 6-3: J Smith (Northancs) bt T
Murray (Surrey) 6-2 6-4: N Lester (Herts)
bt S Harsion (Esse*) 6-3 7-5: A Wharf
(Gloucs) bt R Qades (Yorks) 6-2 7-5: D

Crawley (Norfolk) bi G Bamford | Herts J

6-4 6-3. Women's singles, first round:

A Blow (Leicse) bi H Broome (Lancs) 6-0
6-3; M Mariina (Rus) bt L Reilly [ScoJ 6-
0 3-6 6-3: L Herbert (Herts) bt D Bdl (Sur*
ieyl 6-1 6-3: C Coombs (Kent) bt F Barrett
(Wilts) 6-1 6-2: N Trincl er (Northumber-
land) to C Skiers lone (Surrey) 6-0 6- 1 . C
Smith (Hens) bt L Davison (Durham 6
Cleveland] 6-2 6-2.

’ MEN'S TOURNAMENT (Barce-
a, Sp) Singles second round: A Be-

TODAY'S

NUMBER

The number of
consecutive missed
cuts suffered by golfer
Justin Rose, who tees
off at the Estoril Open
in Portugal today,
since he finished
fourth in the Open
Championship last
year.

BASKETBALL

BY RICHARD TAYLOR

ham’s first in five attempts
against Manchester this season
and Finger added; “I hope it
doesift go to the third game, be-
cause with Nick out again
tonight I think this will be our
best opportunity."

Newcastle Eagles take a
l-O series lead to Crystal Palace
to play fourth-placed London
Tbwers, having beaten them in
three League games this seasoa

The English Basketball As-
sociation have upheld a six-
month ban, with a further six
months suspended, on Derby
Storm’s Maurice Robinson,
who foiled to supply a complete
urine sample at a doping con-
trol after the League Trophy
final in March.

TOD AY’ s
FIXTURES

FOOTBALL

7 . 30 unless stated

HYMAN LEAGUE Premier DtvfsJon:
Basingstoke v Chetfiam. Second Dtrislon;
Bracknell v Tname: Hetnel Hempstead v
Horsham; Hungerford v Hertford: Wind-
sor A Eton v Tooting A Mitcham.
UNIBOND LEAOUE Premier DMsIon:
Gufseteyu Emky First Dhrislon: Hucknall
v Harrogate Town. President's Cup final:
Leigh RMi v Drcylsden.

DR MAJ7TENS LEAGUE Midland Divi-
sion: Cinderford v Newport (Gwent):
Sroixtridge u Scllnai Borough: Sutton Cold-
field v Paget Rangers.

HARP LAGER NATIONAL LEAGUE OF
IRELAND Premier DhUon: Sheboume
v Bohemians (7.45).

NORTHERN COUNTIES EAST LEAGUE
CUP Sem)- final: Denaby v North Ferrlby.
IMNSTONLEAD KENT LEJUGUE Premier
DMsJon: Crockenhlll v Ramsgate.

UHLS PORT UNITED COUNTIES
LEAGUE Premier Dhitsloa: Hemps ton v
Potion.

SCRBfmXDHtECT LEAGUE Premier E*-
•teton: Taunton v Melksham: Yoorii TR v
Tiverton

INTERLINK EXPRESS MIDLAND AL-

LJANQs: West Midlands PoSoe v Halesowen
Hamers, taduatrkri Rearinds League Cup
Semi-final second leg: Bridgrwnnv Old-
bury.

JEWSON WESSEX LEAGUE First Dhri-
Erion: Lvmlngton 6 New Milton y Bnxk-
enhurst.

JEWSON EASTERN LEAGUE Premkrf
Division: Lowestoft v Halstead.
PONTINS LEAGUE First Division: West
Bromwich v Manchester Qtjr \ 7 .V). Sec-
ond DMMefl! Rotherham v Scarborough
(7.0)

AVON INSURANCE COMBINATION
First Dintakn: Northampton v Limn (7.0):
Peterborough v Wycombe [7.0J. Post-
poned; Crystal Palace v Chariton.

FIFA WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP
i) Second round: Japan v Porru-
teri States

(Nigeria) Second round: Japan i
gal (3.0) Wf Bauefn): Spam t unite
13 . 0 ) (of Art Mpncourtf: Mewco v Argentina
(6.0) (01 Ibadan)', Mali v Cameroon (6.0)
{at Enugul.

RUGBY UNION
WELSH NATIONAL LEAGUE Premier
Division: Caerphilly v Bridgend (7.0)

BASKETBALL
BUDWEISER CHAMPIONSHIP Play-
offs second leg: Manchester Giants v
Birmingham Bullets (B.Ot. London Tow-
ers v Newcastle Eagles (8.0).

OTHER SPORTS
BOWLS: English indooi Championship fi-
nals (of Melton Mowtvay)

ICE HOCKEY) World Championship Pool
B: Great Britain v Hungary (at Rodav re.
Dm).

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Owen out for rest of the season

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MICHAEL OWEN is out of
football for three months with
a hamstring and tendon injury.
Yesterday the Liverpool and
England striker discovered the
results of the scan on his right
leg which reveals for worse
damage than was first feared.

Owen will miss England’s
next three matches - the
friendly against Hungary in-
Budapest on 28 April and the
European Champi onship qual-
ifiers against Sweden and Bul-
garia on 5 and 9 June.

Owen limped out of Mon-
day’s Premiership match at
Leeds with a recurrence of the

FOOTBALL

BY PAUL WALKER

hamstring injury that has af-
fected him twice before this sea-
son. Liverpool only discovered
the full extent of his injury
when they received hospital
reports yesterday.

Gdrard Houllien the Anfield
dub’s manager; said: "Ihe scan
has revealed damage to the
hamstring and the tendon. It
will take six weeks to recover
from. Then it will take another
six weeks after that to build up
the strength in the leg again.”

Houllier had already derid-
ed that Owen would have been
given a long rest to recover
from the stresses of almost
three seasons of non-stop foot-
ball before he knew the foil ex-
tent of the injury. Now the
teenage striker will miss Liv-
erpool’s final seven games of
the season as well as the three
England internationals.

It is a big blow for Eng-
land's caretaker coach, Kevin
Keegan, who could cot pick
Owen for the Euro 2000 win
over Poland last month follow-
ing a similar injury sustained at
Derby in March.

Owen also missed several
games last November with an-
other similar injury, which cost
him an England appearance
against the Czech Republic.

Houllier was already con-
cerned about Owen’s general
fitness before the scan reports.
The 19-year-oid, who became a
national celebrity following bis
goal against Argentina at
France 98, has played an in-
credible 85 of Liverpool’s 91
games since he made his debut
against Wimbledon in May
1997. He has also played 13 full
internationals and one Eng-
land Under-21 fixture, plus a

youth international in the past
18 months.

In the previous two close
seasons he has figured in the
Youth World Championship in
Malaysia and. last summer in
the World Cup finals in France.
Owen has scored 23 goals in 40
games this season, and in his
Liverpool career he has col-
lected 47 goals.

The fear at Liverpool must
be that, after three hamstring
injuries in six months, Owen
could have a long-term problem
if he is not given a lengthy break
to recover. At Old Itafford,
Manchester United have often

bad to cope without Ryan
Giggs, who has had constant
hamstring problems.

The JbotbaB Association’s in-
terim executive director; David
Davies, said: “Obviously every-
one connected with England is
very disappointed to hear this
news about Michael, and we all
wish him a speedy recovery

"We will look forward to him
being back m contention for the
crucial Euro 2000 qualifying
matches in September against
Luxembourg and Poland.”

Last night Owen said: ‘‘Nat-
urally r am disappointed to be
injured but I have complete con-

fidence in the medical team at
Airfield and I know that they will
have me back playing as soon
as possible.”

Meanwhile. Robbie Rrwler is
still planning to take on the FA
with an appeal against bis two-
game ban for insulting Graeme
LeSaux.

Fbwleris still considerin g his
next move after meetings with
the Anfield dub, who would pre-
fer that he takes his punish-
ment both for that offence and
his “coke-sniffing" goal cele-
brations against Everton.

However; Fbwier is unhappy
that he was given a bigger

penalty than LeSaux The Chel-
sea left-back was given a one-
match suspension and a fine.
Fowler would like the FA to res
consider its punishment, but
Liverpool fear that could mean
a delay to the period when he
serves his ban and possibtyan
increase in the sentence.

At the moment Fowler, is
due to be ruled out for,, six
matches in total, with one of.
those at the start of next sea-
son. But the England forward
could still miss a bigger chunk
of next season, should the FA
reconsider the case and possi-
bly increase the suspension.

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Korsten snub angers Leeds

Fish supposedly extinct?
Chance a lot’s found

ACROSS

1 Free, aristocratic

young men pay attention 20
incompletely (8)

5 Places to stop for new
arrivals, we hear (6) 24

9 Journalist in crowd

with no yen for huge
numbers (8) 25

10 River in Midlands dty
shows an oarsman (€> .

12 University computer ' 26

store containing nothing

from part of library (7,4) .
Is “BflT encompassing a 2'

boy's name? (5)

17 Organise a delivery
service, showing some
prevarication (9)

18 It’s a match that’s

Spanish boarding-house
(5)

Coin attracting cost
when incorporating
head of noble royal (5,6i
Sexual components
getting us tangled up in
love, maybe? (5)
Wretched Commies
having American in a
state of stupefaction (4-4)
Be keen on taking in new
fashionable restaurant
activity (6)

Predate a decent
reworking by head of
economics (8)

DOWN

Worker supports
British leaders of

sraSBW S 3

Chance a lot’s found
swimming HO)

3 See us in boat without
stern getting raw fish (5)

4 “This clue’s
unsolvable!”? (12)

6 Hard to advertise eating
minimum of calories
when upsetting plump
type (9)

7 ana 8 Shut female in an-

cient workroom? (4-4)

11 Good company leaving
over a worrying event
(5,71

13 Collar, or another
feature of shirt (10)

14 Full price to get juvenile
finally admitted? That’s
corrupt (10)

16 Undergo attentions of
scrubber? You’D have to
make confession (4,51

21 Run and run round
Northern river (5)

22 and 23 Excellent stage
act prompting a repeat
performance? (4,4)

GEORGE GRAHAM, never one
to be the least bit sentimental
about his former employers, is
about to send Leeds United
into a fury by capitalising on
Willem Kors ten’s rejection of a
permanent move to EUand
Road The Tottenham manag-
er is primed to secure the
Dutch midfielder's services
for around El. 5m.

This will no doubt infuriate
Graham’s successor at Leeds,
David O'Leary, who was aiming
to agree a permanent deal for
Korsten from, his club Vitesse
Arnhem, going so far as to
accept all of the Dutchman's
wage demands after he
impressed while on loan.

However; Korsten and his
advisors have now said they
want to speak to other teams,
and Graham may step in and
conclude a move this week.

Leeds are understandably
taken aback by the develop-
ments. Korsten has been with
them since January and made

BY WYN GRIFFITHS

a handful of promising ap-
pearances. The Leeds chair-
man, Peter Ridsdaie, has been
left "completely mystified” by
the player's apparent change of
heart. “It is very disappointing
because it is certainly the first
example I have ever had of a
player who has asked for an
amount of money on a contract
and then, when you offer it to
him. decides not to take it”
Ridsdaie said

"Ail I have heard is that he
has taken into account where
he thinks his other opportuni-
ties might be this summer,
which may well include an op-
portunity in Holland and, fea-
sibly, opportunities in England.
But nobody has given me an
explanation which I believe is
satisfactory. I am completely
mystified."

However Graham, always on
the look-out for a bargain, can
offer him the chance of joining

his squad, with the attraction of
playing in Europe next season.

The Aston Villa manager,
John Gregory; has dropped a
strong hint that Colin Calder-
wood a bargain signing se-
cured from Graham's clear-out
at White Hart Lane, could earn
an extension to his contract
Gregory took over the remain-
ing 15 months of 34-year-old's
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Spurs just before the transfer
deadline for £225,000. He was
seen initially as a short-term
replacement while Ugo Ehiogu
recovered from a fractured eye
socket that is likely to end his
participation this season.

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land international has created
such a favourable impression
on Gregory in his three games
- against West Ham, Leicester
and Southampton - that he
could be offered a longer stay
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be 34 but he has proved he can
keep going for another two or
three years.! I brought him in to

consolidate the defence, and he
has done exactly that

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with Scotland only last summer
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he came into the side we have
kept two clean sheets in three
games. We have missed Ugo,
and there has been a massive
responsibility on Gareth South-

gate’s shoulders. We wanted
Colin to take some of that
responsibility away from him.

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just say that Colin is going to
make himself a good living .-
over the next couple of years."

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THE SCOTTISH Premier
League are preparing them-
selves for a barrage of criticism
after the entire programme for
the last day of the season was
switched to Sunday, 23 May.

All five matches will kick-off
at 6. 05pm, with Sky TV yet to de-
cide which one they will screen
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BY SIMON STONE

evening trip to Tannadice to
pfoy Dundee United and rele-
gation-threatened Hearts face
a trek north to face Aberdeen
It also means that Rangers,
who entertain Kilmarnock at
Ibrox on the final evening, will
now play seven of their last
eight games of the season on
Sunday nights.

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land in recent years, the fix-
tures on the last day of the
season will be played on a Sun-

day,” said an SPL spokesman.
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clubs during negotiations of
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crucial that all the games are
played simultaneously on the
last day of the season in order
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day, a TV showing of the final
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Sunday starts.

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matches have been scheduled
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supporters in Scotland. “Sun-
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Hillsborough, 3.06pm, 15 April 1989

S tephanie Jones travelled to Sheffield
the night before the game to stay with
her brother Richard, and his gui-
1 friend, H-acey, who were at Sheffield
University. The plan was that on the
Sunday, Doreen and Les Jones would
pick up their son, daughter and
Tracey, and drive to Snake Pass for a picnic. On the
Saturday afternoon, Doreen had gone to visit her
father. “I was in the kitchen but my father shouted
to me to tell me there was trouble at Hillsborough.”

Doreen went through to watch the television. T
saw people lying on the pitch and people coming
over the fence. .. and I heard the man say it was Lep-
pings Lane that the trouble was in... and I couldn’t
understand why these people were falling on to the
pitch. I started to panic. I was shouting, ‘My three
are in there. I’ve got to go home,' and 1 started to
ay. I hadn't seen anybody who’d died, but his voice
was very serious and I ran an the way home.”

Doreen rang Les at work where he was also
watching the television coverage. He felt that the
three would be safe because they would not have
been near the front of the pen. Doreen was “get-
ting more and more upset watching the scenes”
while Les “was already quite aware that there were
deaths in the crowd". Some time before 5pm,
Stephanie rang from Sheffield. She was in tears
because she had lost both Richard and Tracey. With
H^he help of another fan she had made her way back
T to the car. A local woman let her use her phone.
“She said she'd hurt her ribs, hurt her arm. I told
her to go back to the ground and tell the police what

she had told me.” Doreen thought that Richard must
be hurt and was probably at the hospital She phoned
Les and he returned home. She contacted Tracey's
mother in Wiltshire and “promised that with every
step of the way [they] would keep in touch.

“Les came home and got changed... Stephanie
finally rang and said she was in a boys' club in
Sheffield, right by the police station. She told her
dad where it was and we told her we were leaving
right away for Sheffield." As they set off Les was
sure that Richard was seriously hurt “There was
no way he would have let Stephanie go missing and
the fact that he was missing was conclusive proof
that there was something wrong. “At first" said
Doreen, “we were talking about whether they
were all right... then conversation petered out..."

At the boys’ dub, they met Stephanie who was
with Richard and Tracey's friends and a social
worker. Doreen and Les were also assigned a
social worker. There was no information, no casu-
alty list, but a ‘Imfote atmosphere... slowly but sure-
ly the people in there were being taken over by dog
collars... more priests and vicars than people...”

Then towards lam a senior police officer stood
on a chair announcing names. “We didn’t know
whether they were people who’d been Injured or
[whether] he was looking for people..." So Les went
and asked. When he received no real answee he went
to the police station and was “chased back” to the
boys' dub. They were told to wait

It was about 2.15am when another police officer
announced that they “were being taken to the
ground to look at some photographs”. Doreen

shouted out “Why? What are we going to look at
photographs for? 'Why aren’t we being taken to a
hospital?” She continued, “He knew what the pho-
tographs were and I suppose I did...”

They were taken outside - “two priests, two social
workers. Stephanie, Les and I" - and put upstairs
on a double-decker bus. Les could not stop shak-
ing, “you didn't know if it was die cold or the fear
or what. . ." At the ground they were left on the bus,
“the Salvation Army... throwing blankets around
[their] shoulders to keep [them] warm”.

The Bereaved

THE JONES FAMILY

Queuing outside the gy mnasi um, the police
reaction was “aggressive... pushing and shoving
[people]”. A Salvation Array officer approached and
saw that Les “was fuming” and asked, “What’s the
problem?". Les replied that they had not seen a
casualty list. He told them not to wony, be would
fetch one. “He went away but he never came back..."

Once inside, they realised the foil horror of the
gymnasium. Surrounded by gym equipment, and
what looked like “curtains hanging", they watched
“a guy standing there punching a brick wall. . . peo-
ple screaming and God knows what..."

Les was asked to go and view the photographs.
Doreen said, "The pair of us went hand-in-hand to
stand in yet another queue. . . there were, like par-
titions and this noise all around you of people sob-
bing and screaming... I was just shaking from my
head to my feet I had this blanket on but I was still

shaking and shaking. And this policeman - he had
a helmet on - said: ‘Can't you just beep still?”

Stephanie had stayed in the room with the so-
cial worker: Doreen and Les then saw -the pho-
tographs. Doreen said, “They were only small
Polaroid pictures and we seemed to go along loads
of them. And then Les pointed out Richard. .. And
then he said he couldn’t find Trace. I said this was
’Dace. .. Les didn’t recognise her at first".

They were taken inside the door, “and they
brought us two trolleys together, pulled one out -
unzipped it just showed you the head and you just
said ‘Yes’ and they pulled the next one forward.
Doreen bent down “to cuddle Richard" but she never
made it “I don’t know who it was... they hawked
me up and told Les that they [the bodies] were the
property of the coroner and we couldn't touch him.
The next thing I know I'm sitting on a chair; so
whether I blocked it out I don't know. But I know
1 didn't touch him, I wasn’t allowed to touch him.”

Someone went to collect Stephanie and an ar-
gument broke out Hie police were demanding state-
ments and Les said: “I don't want to give you a
statement now." They replied: Tm afraid you're
going to have to.” Social workers were arguing that
the statements could wait and the police responded:
“No. We want them now."

“1 was absolutely filming with rage but thought
OK. we've got to do it, I suppose they need identi-
fication, so let’s get it over with.”

Do you know whether he had a drink on the way
up here? What time did he leave home? Do you know
whether he went for a drink the night before? Did

he usually have a drink before the match? Sitting
opposite and alongside police officers, Les “was like
a zombie”. The questions felt like accusations.

“The whole time this guy in civvies was tut-tut-
ting. I just tried to blot him out but he was getting
on my nerves. Eventually the guy asking the ques-
tions said, ’Okay, that’s great,' and walked away and
I thought that was it... then another bobby came
and we had to go through it all again- All the time
these horrendous scenes were going on."

When they finished answering questions about
Tracey, they went to get up from the table and the
plainclothes officer said: “I want a statement now,
an overall statement " Les sat down. *T was so mad
... I just stared ahead and be was asking me ques-
tions, like an overall statement When it was over,
he sort of threw the statement atme and said: “Here
you are, get that signed" I said: “No. Tm going to
read it first” I started reading it and he had every-
thing wrong, it was unbelievable, be had his
[Richard's] age wrong, everything wrong"

Later that day they went to the Medico-Legal
Centre: Doreen wanted to sit with Richard, as she
had wanted to hold him at the gy mnasium. “That
at one time in your life when you needed to be with
your son... You've brought him into the world, for
Christ's sake, you needed to see him out."
Regardless of her actions, however hard she and
Les had tried, “there was no way they were going
to let me be with him". They were powerless.

This is an edited extract from "Hillsborough, The
Trudi\ by Phil Scratan (Mainstream £9.99)

The Liverpool Captain

RONNIE WHELAN

0 THE GAME meant nothing
to us afterwards. The next
few weeks were dominated by
the funerals. Ybu realised that
football was just not important
It was a very black day for
everyone involved in football. I
remember the referee telling
me to get the players off the
pitch quickly. We didn’t realise
what was going on even when
we were out on the pitch.

There appeared to be some
kind of trouble behind the goal.

We were sat in
the dressing-room
and I remember
one guy coming in
and screaming:

“You can’t play on.

Mw cant play on." It
was only after-
wards, when we
watched it on tele-
vision, that we fully
realised what exactly had hap-
pened behind the goal
We just felt so helpless sit-

ting in there. There
was nothing we
could do. I wouldn't
say we wanted to
quit the game but
we realty weren't in-
terested in playing
after the semi-final
I was captain on the
day, but there
wasn’t much I could
do. Nobody spoke.

Maybe [the FA Cup final
against Everton] shouldn't

have been played, but there
were so many other things
going on that any decision was
going to he difficult And a lot
of people wanted us to contin-
ue in the hope that we would
win for the supporters.

In the days afterwards, the
staff came round and told us
that we now had to win theFl _
cup for those who bad died El
Ronnie Whelan is now
coaching the Greek chib side
Panionias

The forest Player

NIGEL CLOUGH

B 1 THINK we’d played for
about 10 minutes or so and
we were just concentrating on
the game It started off at a fran-
tic pace. A couple of people
spilled on to the pitch but we
knew it wasn’t crowd trouble.
We thought we’d let the police
sort it out.

We went off and sat in the
dressing-room for an hour and
a half with no knowledge of
what was going on. The referee
popped his head in every 20

minutes or so to say
we’d hang on a bit -
he wasn't yet aware
of the tragedy.

As to the extent
we didn't find out
until about 5-30pra.

You can't con-
template it If some-
body had said one
person had died,
you'd have thought it was
horrible, but as the numbers
went up it got worse.

All our thoughts
were with the
Liverpool fans who
had lost family and
friends. It hit home
that it could have
been at the Forest
end and it could
have been our fans.

It was a difficult
situation for us at
Fbrest because 1 think the
whole country wanted Liver-
pool to win the re-match, but in

the circumstances the game
was almost secondary.

I remember being so
pleased that the game was
over. FA Cup semi-final day is
such a special day, and it didn’t
feel like that Normally the two
sets of supporters involved are
extremely excited about it be-
cause they may be going to
Wembley, but there wasn't H
that sort of feeling. El
Nigel Clough is now plaj/er-
manager erf Burton Albion

THE POLICEMAN

CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT BRIAN MOLE

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0 1 WAS in the car
in Barnsley
P when the call came
over the police
radio asking for
assistance at
Hillsborough, At
that . point we
thought it was a
pitch invasion.

X got to the ground at around
L30pm. The first sight that
confronted me was of 11 bodies
tying behind the barriers. That
was the first time I knew that
there had been deaths. All the
way over in the car; I had been
expecting a pitch invasion with
complications. I didn’t know
there were deaths.

Anyway, I saw the bodies and
the inspector came up to me
and said: “It's worse than that.
Boss - there is a whole gym-
nasium of bodies."

You see terrible
things, but you have
to put your profes-
sional head on.
There were die fam-
ilies there who you
are trying to help.
You have to try to
get on with it
It was a long
night I remember the sports
minister Colin Moynihan com-
ing up. He bad never seen a
dead body before and yet he
came into the gym and there
were 90 there.

Looking back now, 10 years
on, I think that people have to
leave it akma I hope the service
today will help. I hope it will n
help the healing process. El
Brian Mole retired from the
pree six years ago and is now

head of security at Sheffield
University

0 WHAT has been inade-
quately addressed by the
film, the documentaries, the en-
quiries, was that five minutes
before the dteastec the crowd
control was about combating
hooliganism.

Suddenly it was about crowd
protection. Although there was
appalling incompetence by the
police, in a sense those who
were bereaved, were bereaved
by hooligans. Not through hook-

The Journalist

PATRICK BARCl-AY

gan behaviour on the
day, but by the ac-
tions of hooligans in
the past which had
led to oppressive
pens, herding like
animals, and siege
mentalities at
grounds.

Since then, we’ve
rectified the problems - the
hooligans, the penning ter-
races. I don’t regret the

changes. I don’t
care what atmos-
phere we’ve lost.
Atmosphere is not
worth one injury,
let alone 100 lives.

Having been
there 1 don’t want
to be reminded of
it. It was then
end of a terrible era, I hope. El
Patrick Barclay is now at The
Sunday Telegraph'

The Photographer

KEITH DOBNEY

Q I WAS one of The Indepen-
dents staff photographers
and the first I knew was when
I got a call from the picture
editor at about 3.15pm. 1 drove
up the Ml and got there about
5.45pm.

The photographers there
earlier had taken those pictures
used over the next few days of
people crushed up against the
fences. I can't see how you can
illustrate an event like that
where people were choked.

squashed to death, using any
other image. Tfen years on, no
one has been held account-
able for what happened, ri 1
1 find that dreadful. El
Keith Dobney still works as a
freelance photographer

THE FOREST SUPPORTER

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B ITS A strange feeling that
the Forest supporters at
the game were left with. Al-
though the tragedy concerned
Liverpool fans, there were also
a lot of people from Nottingham
who were affected. It left a
mental scar for people who

were there. I believe there was
counselling for some of the
Forest fans who were there.

I can still remember the day
very dearly. It was a day m
never forget I was sitting level
with the eSge of the 18-yard box
at the Leppings Lane end.
When it first happened, you

INSIDE

didn’t realty realise the enor-
mity of it, but gradually the
scale of what had happened
began to sink in -that so much
carnage could have happened
at a football game.

Now, I think that, football is
a safer place with better
grounds and supporters are a
lot more responsible.

I think most Forest sup-
porters would like to forget
about it But that’s not eas- n
ily done. El

Mel Hart now chairs the
Nottingham fbrest Support-
ers Club

The Liverpool Supporter

B WE ARRIVED at the match
around 1.50pm and went
straight into the central pens.
By 2.10pm, the crush was al-
ready as bad as the Kop [the
terrace at Liverpool's ground]
ever was, aggravating my
friend’s injured back. We strug-
gled out of the tunnel and found
the empty pens, unaware of
what we were leaving hehind
It would be fitting if the 10th
anniversary could see an end to
tiie bitterness, i think, though,
the river of injustice is too
wide, authorities'

stonewalling too callous.^

ALAN EDGE
Decent people like the Ham-
monds - who lost their beloved
Philip - don’t sacrifice so much
pursuing groundless causes.

Their fives have been on
hold since then. They’ve strug-
gled to come to terms with
their loss and the reasons for
it The justice they want is sim-
ple: a fair trial of those re-
sponsible for the disaster and
for the lies and cover-ups after-
wards. I believe that is fair.

Fbr me. I pray that thoughts

of that crowded pen will stop
wrenching my guts.

I pray that in years to come,
my grandson will ask me why
there was no FA Cup final in
1989. 1 pray that PU be able to
tel! him that the participants
agreed 10 years later to have
that final taken out of the
record books. Their doing so, I
shall add, was an honourable
thing to have done, in recogni-
tion of the % victims of the
disaster; many of them chiidrea
Would the fruition of

^ such a prayer be too g|

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Age of consent

Sin Baroness Young justifies her
support for a discriminatory age of
consent for homosexuals with the
argument thatyoung men need
protection against abuse (“Lords
reject lower age of gay consent", 14
April;. Wliy, then, does she refuse
to support the most obvious and
effective safeguard against sexual
exploitation - earlier; better-
quality sex educationin schools?

Evidence from other countries
suggests that the best protection
against abusive relationships is
educating and empowering young
people to stand up for their sexual
rights, which include both the right
to say “yes” to sex and the right to
say “no". Teenagers who have the
knowledge, skills and confidence
to control their own bodies are
much more likely to resist
unwanted sexual advances and to
report abuse if it occurs.

Current sex education is too
vague and euphemistic, focusing
on the biological facts of
reproduction and rarely
discussing sex, let alone sexual
rights or sex abuse. Fhw pupils
receive assertiveness training in
bow to deal with sex pests or in
what to do if they are molested.
They need to be taught the ability
and assuredness to reject and
report undesired sexual overtures.

Baroness Voung and her
supporters ignore the fact that
adults who sexually exploit
teenagers often get away with it
because the victims feel guilty
about sex and are therefore
reluctant to complain. This
reluctance is reinforced by strait-
laced cultural attitudes, which still
tend to regard sex as something
sordid that should be kept hidden
and private. These attitudes are a
godsend to abusers, who rely on
guilt and secrecy to carry out their
molestation undetected.

If Lady Voung is serious about
the protection of youth, she should
call on the Government to amend
the age of consent B01 to require all
schools to provide more detailed
and comprehensive sex education.
PETER TATCKELL
OutRage!

London SW14

Sir The conclusion of Baroness
Young’s disgraceful campaign to
deny basic human rights to young
gay men will have come as no
surprise to any of us concerned in
this matter or who are familiar
with the people who support her.

I can remember the loneliness
and confusion 1 suffered as a boy
growing up in Berkshire in the
early Sixties and it makes me
furious that people like Lady
Young wish to perpetuate this
unhappiness even today.

Thank God -and I man that- we
have a government now which Is
prepared to stand up to ignorance
and prejudice and that this long-
overdue measure of simple justice
will eventually become law.

The Rev NEIL DAWSON
London SWl

Sir Yet again we have to listen to
the outpourings of moral
indignation from those opposed to
lowering the age of consent for
homosexuals to that of
heterosexuals.

What morality displays such
displeasure at other people's
happiness, such prejudice against
a minority which would not be
tolerated if expressed against
anyone with a different skin-colour,
such ignorance of the splendid and
many-coloured aspects of human
emotions and inclinations?

They key word is "consent". If a
boy and a girl of 16 are deemed
capable of making the momentous
decision to have sex and so realise
the potential of creating a child,
then at 16 any homosexual boy or
girl should be deemed capable of
giving or withholding consent to a
sexual relationship.

MICHAEL WRIST
Ely, Cambridgeshire

My transport policy

Sin Your front-page article (13
April) was downright wrong when
it said that I am met by a chauffeur
when I fly into the UK. I ffy into one
of London's airports at least once a

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week on average and my usual
means of travel on arrival is to
drive myself in my own car or to
take a tube or taxi I object strongly
to the implication that I am
frequently collected by my official
driven because that is just not true.

My official car was in the UK on
only seven occasions last year and
twice this year. Even then this did
not always involve collecting me
from the airport. In addition to the
official rules on the use of that car,

I have a set of self-imposed
conditions which have to be met
before I am happy for it to come
here. It does not come unless I
have significant engagements as
leader of the Socialist Group in the
European Parliament or several
days’ intense activity which means
that I need to work while travelling
byroad.

like Romano Prodi, I am very
happy to use the humblest of
transport. My travel arrangements
to meetings at Downing Street
while leader of the Socialist Group
have included taxis, tube and foot
and even hutching a lift in a
delivery van.

PAULINE GREEN MEP
(Lab, London North)

L ondonNiS

Nato terror raids

Sir. The claim by Nato’s Supreme
Commander; General Wesley Clark,
that Nato’s bombing of a civilian
passenger train near Leskovac on
Monday was an “uncanny
accident” (report, 14 April) must be
regarded as a sick joke. Nato planes
bombed the train twice, from close
quarters. Unsatisfied with one
“accident", the pilot apparently
went back for another; when the
train was dearly visible to him.

The truth is that Nato is
murdering civilians in Yugoslavia
virtually every day and is
systematically destroying the
country’s civilian infrastructure. A
typical example of Nato’s bombing
strategy was illustrated in Robert
Fisk’s report of the same day,

“ ‘Collateral damage’ lies dying in
a shattered Belgrade hospital".

Nato bombed barracks in the

Belgrade suburb of Banjica in full
knowledge that it was situated
back to back with a hospital and
that harm to patients was
inevitable. Victims included
civilians recovering from major
surgery and people injured in
earlier Nato attacks.

I agree with Robert Fisk that
Nato’s daim that they go to
extraordinary lengths to avoid
civilian casualties is “totally
untrue". I fear that these attacks on
the civilian population offlagoslavia
are actually designed to terrorise
the population into submission.
EUrtherraore, 1 believe that Nato’s
threat to bomb Yugoslav radio and
television transmitters arose from
concern about the effects on
Western public opinion of
broadcasts which show the extent
of human “collateral damage" Id
Nato’s humanitarian wan

Those who are suffering and will
continue to suffer will not be the
political leaders, here or in
Yugoslavia. They are the innocent
children and civilians of a country
whose infrastructure is being
systematically destroyed, in a
landscape filled with depleted
uranium and land mines in the

form of unexploded duster bombs
dropped by the Royal Air Force.
ALICE MAHON MP
(Lab. Halifax >

House qf Commons
London SWl

Sir Your front-page report “Nato
hits Serb troops" 02 April)
mentions "several hundred pro-
Serb demonstrators" in London.
FYom where I was standing, there
did seem to be a number of pro-
Serb demonstrators, but why don’t
you mention the several thousand
who were there to protest against
the Nato bombing? Surely you
can’t think that this is the same
thing as supporting Milosevic or
being “pro-Serb”?

ANNA RIDEHALGH
Southampton

Sir. Having been present in
Trafalgar Square on Sunday 11
April, I would like to voice my
disgust at the motley collection of
greens, Marxists and anti -endear
campaigners who allowed
themselves to be associated with
the Serbian nationalists protesting
against Nato air strikes.

I respect their right to protest

but for them to align themselves
with supporters of Milosevic's
murderous regime is little short of
a disgrace. Are we to understand
that Tony Benn (for one) supports
the policy of ethnic deansing? If
not what other solution does he
advocate to stop the scorched-
earth policy of the Serbs?

I am glad that finally Milosevic
has come up against a force
stronger than bis own . His
capacity to pursue his vile policies
of mass-murder and systematic
rape of defenceless dvilian
populations must be removed to
ensure no more repeats of the
tragedies in Bosnia and Kosovo.
PAUL O’HAGAN
London NWl

Sir. In accusing those who oppose
Nato’s bombing ofYugoslavia of
being the same as those who
appeased Hitlerin the 1930s, Ibny
Blair has consistently
misunderstood the fact thatan
anti-bombing campaign can in no
way be equated with a pro-ethnic
deansing campaign. Those who
protest against the bombing of
Yugoslavia, such as myself, are
merely outraged at the breaking of

Sir. I agree with Julie Friend
(letter, 13 April) about the way
in which British Telecom is
handling the change of some
dialling codes. I recently
logged on to the official web-
site. www.numberchange.org,
only to find that there was no
e-mati address to register any
complaint, question or
suggestion. There is only one
other site 1 know where e-mail
comments are not accepted.
That belongs to an
organisation so arrogant that it
thinks it has no need to listen
to members of the public - the
International Olympic
Committee. Enough said.

The Rev DAVID E FLAVELL
Liverpool

Sin When personal computers
were becoming widespread.

In Brief

Parliament discussed the Data
Protection Bill and we were
given a solemn assurance that
no data would be accessed by
any government agency other
than that which had collected
them. Now I read that data
transfer between government
agencies is to be so widespread
that it is hailed as an
advantage to be able to notify
one agency of a change of
address and for it to be relayed
to all others (“We’re on line to
call government direct", 7
April). I thought promises
made by ministers in
Parlia ment were binding.
PETER TALLENT IRE
Liverpool

Sir The “mean, narrow,
Caucasian” style of
nationalism which Donald
Macintyre fears (“Now is
the time for all good folk to
come to the aid of the union",

9 April) is sadly alive and well
in Scotland.

In Edinburgh there are
areas I cannot visit because of
the hostile reaction which
would greet my English accent.

Even around the
universities of the city the
hostility encountered by
English students from the
narrow-minded segment of
our Scottish peers serves to
group all of us into one
title-holding, car-owning,
caviar-eating, dinner
party-throwing caste.

SIMON FRANCIS
Edinburgh

Heed Good Friday

Sr David, McKttrick’s 13 April
report on the Northern Ireland
peace process states that “in the
event of failure almost all of the

blame is likely to be laid ft t the door

of Sinn Ftin”. Ttis wouldbean.

extraordinary outcome.

The Good Friday Agreement .
does not contain a requirement for
XRA decommissiomn&before San' .
ffein can take theirplace in the

Executive. The Unionists

themselves pointed this absence

out, and required a private _ -

assur anc e from the Prime Minister

about decommissioning before

they would sign the Agreement
Somehow the Prime Minister and
the l&nseach have decided that a

Unionists and the Prime Minister

international law and
contravention of the UN charter.

Nato’s requirement thatits
ground troops be allowed into
Kosovo is understandably
unacceptable to Serbia, just as the
suggestion of a foreign intervention
force mNorthem Ireland would be
unacceptable to Mr Blair’s
government Are we prepared to
wage an all-out war against Serbia
for its non-compliance with this
demand? If so, Mr Blair would do
well to rememb er what happened
to the great powers that dedared
war on Seibiainl9l4.

JAMES COOK
Nottingham

NHS 2000 bug

Sin Last weekend was marked by
a number of television
programmes encouraging people
to attempt to conceive so that they
maybe the first parents of a child
boni in the new millennium.

The National Health Service will
be more stretched than ever before
at the end of this year and the
beginning of the next Temporary
extensions to casualty departments
are being planned, along with
additional resources for operating
theatres and intensive care units.
Our equipment and supplies may
be jeopardised by the failure of
microprocessor-based equipment
It is therefore wholly irresponsible
of television stations to encourage a
“baby boom" at this time.

The only scandal which exceeds
this is that of the health purchasing
authorities, who expect the
additional workload for the
millennium to be absorbed in the
budget for the financial year, with
no reduction in elective activity -
varicose veins, hip replacements
and so on. The additional workload
for a consultant in the health
service for the period in question is
the equivalent of an extra 28 days.
Who will pay for this?

Dr JOHN URQUHART
Consultant Anaesthetist with
responsibility for Obstetric
Anaesthesia
West Suffolk Hospital
Bury St Edmunds

agreement signed by all elected J
parties relevant to the conflict • ?

FRANK MURPHY
Coutsdon, Surrey

Sir. As one of the Irish diaspora in
America to whom John Btoey refers
rtetten 13 April), it is certainly not
the republ icans that I wifi blame for
a collapse in the Northern Ireland
peace agreement

A start to decommissioning
prior to an establishment of the . 1
executive was not part of the
si gne d agreement which was
ratified by a majority of people in .
Ireland. What outrage would there
he if ffinn Etein held up the process
until the start of the *
“decommissioning” of the RUC?

Sticking to the letter of the
agreement is the only safe and
blameless way to proceed. There
must be an end to the Unionists
/^nmg the shots. It is npt their
peace, but everyone’s peace.
HUGHMULCAHY
NewTltyrk

GM crops on trial

Sin In your article, “Monsanto legal
move sparks civil rights row"

(9 April), you claim that the Prime

Minis ter and the Prince of Whies
“could soon receive legal notices
from Monsanto*'. This is for fetched.

In July 1998 Monsanto was
granted an injunction preventing
members of Genetix Snowball from
damaging our property or
encouraging others to do so.

In December 1998 Genetix
Snowball published a Handbook
for Action describing how to uproot
GM crops at trial sites around the
UK and encouraging readers to
take action. The handbook and
other material encouraging the
uprooting of GM crops and other
unlawful acts is also published on
Genetix Snowball’s website.

As a result, if someone reads the
handbook or accesses the website
and takes action in support of
Genetix Snowball, then those
group members responsible for
encouraging such unlawful activity
are likefy to face further action by
damaging Monsanto's property.

Of course, anyone who simply
reads the handbook but takes no
unlawful action against
Monsanto's property need not fear
being sued or prosecuted.
Astonishingly, this m eans that only
people who break the law will face
legal action!

We are also far from interested in
who has or has not read this book.
But we have a duty to ensure that
everyone who receives or accesses
the handbook also receives, or is ■
able to access, a copy of any
relevant current Court Order

Many of the questions that are
being asked about GM crops can be
best answered through field trial
data. Sadly, organisations like
Genetix Snowball seem intent on
denying others those answers.
DANVERAKIS
Monsanto pic
London Wl

Lax leadership

Sir. All the regular guys I know eat
prunes for breakfast (.“Are you a
regular guy?" 13 April) . If such
wholesome food were available on
Willia m Hague's “kitchen table",
perhaps his party could get
moving a gain.

ROGER HURRELL
LlandeUo, Carmarthen

There’s more to the Asian rich-list than meets the eye

I WAS slightly puzzled by the list
which was recently issued of the top
100 richest Asians in Britain. I
read it through from top to bottom,
hoping against hope that I was on
it as one reads the New Year's hon-
ours list in the vague hope that one
might have been knighted by acci-
dent. Butit wasn't my absence that
puzzled me. It was the fact that
there was not a single rich Chinese
person on the list

The Chinese must be at least as
good businessmen as the Indians,
which is why the Chinese are reg-
ularly persecuted throughout Asia,
and there must be several million-
aires among them in Britain. Why
were there none on the list of rich
Asians? Are the Chinese so secret-
ive that it was impossible to find out
how much they were worth ?

Then it struck me with the force

of a kick on the behind from a pan-
tomime horse. .

An Asian is not a person from
Asia, and certainly not from that
part (tf Asia where most Asians live,
called China. He is a person from
India, or Pakistan, or Bangladesh.
He is a person from the great sub-
continent that used to be part of the
British Empire. It is the shorthand
terra that has been evolved to de-
scribe people of Indian origin, no
matter where they now come from,
so that people who have never
seen Asia in all their lives can hap-
pily be described as Asians (Ugan-
dan Asians, for instance, or writers
of In dian origin from Trinidad),
whereas a man who has just got off
the plane from a genuine part of
Asia such as Japaa Thailand or
Burma, and has every right to be
called Asian, would be told by

British prejudice that he is no
such thing.

It is highly convenient for us to
use the word “Asian" because it is
a glib term for one of the two main
streams of immigration we have
known since the war. Most immi-
grants to Britain in toy lifetime have
been either Middle Eastern in ori-
gin or Caribbean. There has been
incredible variation among them,
and I don't suppose that Sikhs, Hin-
dus, Tamils, Bengalis and all the
rest like being lumped together as
“Asians", r certainly don't think that
Trinidadians and Jamaicans feel
blood brothers back home in the
West Indies, any more than we
would care to be rounded up with
New Zealanders and Canadians in
a group, of “Anglo-Saxons”, but
that’s too bad. We as an island cul-
ture can't handle too many shades

Miles

Kington

We cant handle too
many shades of meaning,
so we lump everyone as
either black or Asian

of meaning, so we lump everyone
together as black or Asian.

Only this morning on the radio,

1 heard Jade Straw insisting on the
police recruiting more black and
Asian officers. He would be some-
what surprised if the police re-
sponded by taking him literacy
and recruiting hundreds of black
Chicagoans, or promoting hordes
of Vietnamese policemen. That
isn’t quite whathe meant When he
uses words such as “black” and
“Asian" he means something very
specific, and yet very vague at the
same time.

The funny thing about reading
the list of the top 100 rich Asians
(why no list of black, or Arab, or
Irish, by the way? > was that I didn’t
read about it in the English press.
As ithappens, I was up in Scotland,
staying with cousins in Blairgowrie,
when this list of the top 100 richest
Asians was issued, and the way it
was reported in Scotland was very

different from the way it was re-
ported down here. Why? Because,
of course, there are some very rich
Asians in Scotland, and so the
Scottish media wanted to knowhow

the rich Scottish Asians had done
compared to rich English Asians,
and how many Scottish Asians
were on the list of the top 100. (Quite
a few, as it happened.)

I can't make my mind up
whether there is something reas-
suring or worrying about this
immediate impulse to see things
through Scottish eyes, to see how
our Scottish Asians are doing. Is it
a natural impulse to be pleased by
the success of immigrants to
Scotland? Oran equally natural im-
pulse to see our Asian lads do well

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restaurants in Blairgowrie, and
saying that at least the Indian
families involved would have each
other to talk to.

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be on speaking terms,” said my
cousin drily. “There is a gulf
between them."

"What gulf might that be?"

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Dundee and the other is an .
family from Glasgow.” v. ; -

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for some other Scots has spread
further than we think But ri ght
now, at a time of Scottish glert fo* 1 * ? '
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Europe’s leaders
must not slacken
the drive for reform

YESTERDAY EUROPEAN leaders met Kofi Annan, the
United Nations Secretary General, to talk about the war in
Kosovo. Afterwards, they had dinner with Romano Prodi,
the president elect of the European Commission, to disc uss
reform of Europe's institutions.

It is right that European leaders are tackling both these
matters. Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia, can-
not be given the succour of seeing any divisions within the
ETU. But nor should European governments allow the
Commission to keep drifting following the resignation of the
Commission President Jacques San ter and the 19 other
commissioners because of corruption scandals.

There are decisions to be made. Mr Prodi needs a team
of commissioners to oversee the reform of the Commission.
Following the scandals the European parliament bas won
the right to vet the candidates put forward by the member
states. It should use this right to ensure that member states
appoint commissioners who are ready to do the job at hand,
and not those who take their posts as a reward for past
domestic service.

The new candidates should not be appointed before the
European elections in June. The next parliament will not
feel bound by the decisions of its predecessor and the vetting
will have to be done again. Not until early September will
the new MEPs get going on the bearings.

There are three categories of existing commissioners.
The first includes Edith Cresson, who has been named and
shamed in the report on the Commission’s failures. Sbe could
not be reappointed in any circumstances. The second cate-
gory includes commissioners such as Sir Leon Britten, who
have not been specifically criticised and who have indicated
that they do not want to work beyond the end of the year.
The third category comprises those such as Neil Kinnock
who want to serve for the next five-year term.

So Mr Prodi has a choice in September. Why should
untainted commissioners such as Mr Kinnock be blamed
for the malfeasance of others? Furthermore, as Sir Leon
has argued, experienced people are needed during this per-
iod of the banana troubles and the war in Kosovo.

Mr Prodi should reject such arguments, however. The
report that led to the mass resignation stressed that the
Commission is a collective body and implicitly criticised all
of the commissioners. By sacking all of them and having a
new set starting in September Mr Prodi would have a team
that would be acceptable to both the member states and
the parliament This would enable the Commission to push
ahead with such neglected tasks as appointing someone to
bring together common foreign and security policy, as an-
nounced in the Amsterdam TYeaty. If the EU is to rebut
charges of being an economic Bon buta military mouse, such
an appointment is overdue.

A welcome step to
genetic openness

ON THE whole, copyright and patenting are good ways to
reward and protect the intellectual effort required to
make works of art or inventions that better the condition
of humankind. However, tbe Human Genome Project,
which maps the genetic blueprint of our species, creates
a situation in which the status of patenting is unclear.

Ten large drug companies and five leading genetics
research centres have announced that they will publish
their findings on single nucleotide polymorphisms <SNPs>.
SNPs are the genetic differences that may offer a clue, for
example, to why some people develop lung cancer while
others can smoke 20 cigarettes a day into their nineties.

The discovery of SNPs is a profitable business. Patents
on the locations of these so-called genetic signposts - and

the diseases to which they are (inked - can lead to a
sparkling income for the discoverer. Such research is
often undertaken by small firms that hope to sell patent
rights to larger firms, which then develop the drugs that
take advantage of these discoveries. The big drug com-
panies fear that tbe smaller firms can restrict their explor-
ation of this area of commercial activity, and want to publish
SNP maps to prevent anyone from patenting them.

Centres of medical excellence want to publish tbe loc-
ations of these signposts on the genes so that they can pur-
sue their research without having to pay crippling fees to
research companies.

It is a sign of the future importance of medical genet-
ics that drug companies, notoriously secretive, are prepared
to share information. They feel that there is more to gain
from open access to data than there is to lose by sharing
their knowledge with competitors.

Once the information is freely available, the large
pharmaceutical companies can set about doing what they

are best at - ie developing and marketing medicines.

The Human Genome Project is an exception to the rule
of the excellence of patenting. Governments should have
recognised this fact some time ago and international
treaties should have established tbe area as an endeav-
our that is outside the normal rules. It is a welcome action,
if self-interested on the part of the large companies, to make
gene know-how free for all.

Bogus values

THE CONVICTION of Malaysia’s former finance minis-
ter. Anwar Ibrahim, on corruption charges simply shows
how corrupt Malaysia itself has now become. This show
trial has demonstrated the emptiness of the “Asian” val-
ues touted by Mahathir Mohamad. Prime Minister of
Malaysia. Truth is truth, in Malaysia or in Manchester.
Asians and Europeans alike will want nothing to do with
Mr Mahathir's hypocritical defence of tyranny and torture.

Trimble, Blair, Mowlam and Ahern
should take a gamble on weapons

COLMCILE DOES not seem to film
Nick Martin-dark. I picture him now.
bristly and squat, tapping out his
furious, semi-literate messages in a
state of desperation that this elegant
rival might actually win converts.
NMC himself, though the name
belongs to a supercilious Brit from a
Hollywood movie, is never anything
but lucid and respectful. As well he
might be, since he is a most
unwelcome visitor to the republican
bulletin board, the place where you go
to chat after you've absorbed Gerry
Adams’s latest missive on tbe Sinn
Ffein website.

The iksue over which ColmcSe and
NMC are falling out is the decom-
missioning of IRA weapons. NMC
has gone to the bother of posting a
comprehensive, analytical and non-
partisan piece, arguing that tbe spirit
of the peace process does now require
some movement on the part of the
IRA. even if- as he accepts -disarma-
ment is nota pre-condition of moving
ahead to the establishment of a new
executive to run Northern Ireland.
Colmdle, to the approbation of other
contributors, replies thus: “I am sur-
prised you [have] foe time and still get
over to Drumcree for peacekeeping
there with the local Orange Orda: You
are scum and should keep to your own
country Colmdle.”

You have to be careful with bulletin
boards. Women turn oat to be men and
Sinn Feiners could realty be bored
sixth-formers trying to start a fight
But in trying to answer the baffling
question, “Why if they believe so
strongly that the war is eves are the
IRA so determined to hang on to every

last revolver?”, it is much more use-
ful to visit an uncensored site like this,

than to attempt to interpret the
theological and often gnomic pro-
nunciations of Gerry and pals.

Wfe afi know that, in the febrile dawn
moments before the Good Friday
agreement was signed last yean a
form of words was found which sug-
gested that the paramilitaries would
disarm a bit, but without making
their doing so a stumbling-block to the
rest of the process. This was part of
what enabled David Trimble to sign
up, whereupon much of the rest of his
party fled. “All participants," read
the agreement, “accordingly reaffirm
their commitment to tbe total disar-
mament of all paramilitary organis-
ations. They also conform their
intention. .. to use any influence they
may have, to achieve the decommis-
sioning of all paramilitary arms within
two years following endorsement in
referendums. North and South, of
the agreement and in the context of
the implementation of the overall
settlement"

It is hard to understand this in any
other way than that Sinn Ftein, for its
part, agreed to try its level best to get
the Proves to give up all their weapons
by Easter 2000. Not some. AIL This was
not, however; a pre-condition of Sinn
Ffein's entry into the executive. Quite
right for they do indeed represent a
substantial body of opinion in North-
ern Ireland, as tested in the 1998 as-
sembly elections. But it was also
obvious that a complete failure to
achieve any movement whatsoever on
de commiss ioning would put at risk
Unionist support for the agreement

David

Aaronovitch

Let Sinn Fein into the
executive and see whether it
does use its best efforts to
get rid of all IRA weapons

Of course, we deal here partly with
symbols. Tbe Unionist insistence on
disarmament is in danger of elevating
the mere existence of weaponry above
the willingness of human beings to use
it Were the conflict to begin again on
the previous industrial scale, it might
only be a matter of time before zealots

got bold of replacement weapons.
And we have heard a great deal of stuff
about how Irish revolutionaries have
always had a romantic need to bury
their pikes and Semtex by lamplight
Nevertheless, this whole agree-
ment has been an exercise in cor*fid-
ence building - which is substantially
a symbolic process. Prisoners who
have been responsible for terrible acts
have been let out, without first re-
penting; the IRA, for its part has
located the graves of some of those
whom it "executed” in the early Sev-

enties. To the anxious outsider it
seems logical to say, “OK. You, Gerry
Adams, get the IRA to give up some
weapons and you, David Thimble, get
the new executive up and motoring.
And do it at roughly the same time
Indeed, this - in essence - was what
the Hillsborough declaration said a
fortnight ago.

Now Gerry says that he is not in a
position to oblige. In his Easter speech
he was dear "We cannot deliver the
demand for IRA weapons, no matter
how this is presented." But how
should we interpret this? Are we to be-
lieve that Sinn Fein is trying hard
fusing any influence they may
have"i. but that it cannot quite get the
balaclava ed ones to play ball?

Initially, it doesn't sound Uke it “One
nfthe ( British J provocations." Adams
went on. “has been the demand on the
rRA to disarm. This is something
which the 1 RA has made clear it feels
under no obligation to do. "Technically,
this is true. The IRA did not, as such,
take part in the talks. Nevertheless,
Sinn Fein is obliged to try and
persuade the IRA. and pretty damn
soon, too.

So. the question arises, under what
circumstances would Gerry and Mar-
tin and Mitchell et al thijik that they
do stand a chance of persuading the
IRA to give up their weapons? When
they take their places in an executive?
Six months afterwards? When the
loyalist paramilitaries give up theirs?
Or never?

When David Trimble frightens us
with his suggestions that he may no
longer be able to command the sup-
port of his followers, this is at least

something that we can test We can
go out there and ask them, or we can
take a poll. What is impossible for us
to evaluate is whether Adams risks a
split within the IRA by demanding
decommissioning. It's easy for him to
suggest that he’s a reasonable guy. but
that his mate is a bit mental and that
that’s his chair we're sitting on.

What makes this stance even more
awkward is the way that Sinn Ffein
rhetoric faces in two directions at
once. “Let me try also to assure our
Unionist neighbours,” says Adams,
“We will do our best to remove any dif-
ficulties you may have and to under-
stand your fears and your feelings. We
will do everything we can within our
ability to mate this process work." And
then, in the same breath, he blames
British "securocrats” (whatever they
are> for stoking up the decommis-
sioning demand. The man is intelli-
gent He knows better than that that
it is the Unionist people themselves
who want to have those arms put
“beyond use".

I believe that Trimble, Blair.
Mowlam and Ahern should take tbe
gamble, and allow the executive to be
formed, making it dear that they are
calling Sinn Fein's bluff Let it in and
then see whether it does use its best
efforts to get rid of ail IRA weapons.
For at some point they must go. You
don't have to be a securocrat for God's
sake, to be alarmed by armed men.
“'fake no notice of Nick Martin-Clark,”
one of Colmdle ’s mates posted on tbe
republican bulletin board yesterday.
“His days are numbered.” Anywhere
else that would have read more like
swaggering prophecy than threat.

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and then. Pakistan now has the
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haven't heard? The Brazilian
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rigorous intimate depilatoiy
technique that reaches parts
other treatments don’t Long
popular with glamour models
and blue-movie performers,
the BBW also numbers
Naomi Campbell, Christy
Turlington and Kirs tie Alley
among those who have come
dean this week about their
preference for this unusual
personal grooming technique.
“You changed my lifer
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beautician who introduced
her to the max wax. Oh, and
Gwyneth also keeps a feng
shui book by her bed...

THE ROYAL National
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Good news: SP costs just
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publishes her new novel Take
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five-year-old child model for
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may have warped her for life.
“I will not wear natural fibres
next to my body,” she said at
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dropped in unexpectedly -
and discovered a burly male
Nigerian ecdysiast on the
bar with a female
customer... as the sound
system blasted out the
national anthem. What will
Minsk's moralists make of
this? Belarus is a police
state and Steele blames the
closure on “that whole
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PANDORA'S LITTLE book of
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the Welsh Secretary Alun
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THE BEAT goes on - north
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and treacle. First we had
New Lab recycling
Kumockio’s “Altogether
Now” by the Farm, Scots
Ibries. 200-1 outsiders, have
opted for M People’s
“Movin' On Up”, more hip
replacement than hip, as
the optimistic sound-track
to boost their electoral run.
Could the SNP's shaky
break from the electoral
stalls be related to the
party’s choice of the
distinctly dodgy
“Caledonia”? Sample lyric:
“I’ve been afraid that/ 1

might drift away Now that

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couldn't get any higher -
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they’ve gone.” Maybe the
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for the sounds of silence.

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says he may franchise
the Duck there. Its
entertainment
policy guarantees
excitement:
freebies entice
the glossiest
talent: once
young femmes
cross the
threshold they
enjoy two
hours of free
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COMPUTER GAME wars. Two
tiny computer firms,
Connectix and Bleem, are
squaring up to the Japanese-
controlled consumer
electronics giant Sony. The
Silicone valley hotshots
have devised £28
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PC owners to enjoy
PlayStation games
without buying
.• Sony’s pricey
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response?
Injunctions.
Coming soon
to a console

near you:

Lara Croft
patent lawyer.

striptease
and are
encouraged
to dance on
the bar in
“spontan-
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perform-
ances. Only
tben does
Steele
admit
guys. But
a group of
politic- ’
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from the
Duma

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Red stilettos in the chemistry lab

THE MOST glamorous teacher at my
daughters' secondary school was
Miss Glover; the chemistry mis-
tress. She wore red patent leather
Manolo Biahnik open-toe stilettos in
the chemistry lab despite large
warning notices pinned to the wall
forbidding all varieties of open
footwear because of the dangers of
chemical spillage. She had a mane
of shoulder-length chestnut hair d
la Cindy Crawford, which she wore
loose in direct contravention of an-
other warning notice pointing out
the dangers of unfettered hair in
laboratory conditions. As for the rule
that forbade the consumption of all
food and beverages In the science
block, Miss Glover regularly ate her
lunch sitting on a desk in front of the
blackboard, swinging her stilettos
and licking mayonnaise off her
fingers as she instructed the girls
how to use Bunsen burners.

All this I learnt from my daugh-
ters who, like every other 12-year-
old in their class, had a violent
crush on Miss Glover and, naturally
wanted to be like her when they
grew up. “You mean you want to be
chemists?” 1 asked. Yes, they chor-
used But not necessarily chemistry

Sue Arnold

My daughters, like every
other 12-year-old in
their class, had a inolent
crush on Miss Glover

teachers. They'd be very happy
working in Boots. The first parent/
teachers meeting 1 ever went to. I
made a beeline for Miss Glover's
comer to see whether they'd been
exaggerating. I couldn't get any-
where near it. The press of parents,
mainly fathers, waiting to talk to
Miss Glover about their daughters’
progress was too great The year be-
fore they did their GCSEs. Miss
Giover left (presumably to go to

Hollywood) and thereafter no fur-
ther mention was made by either
daughter of a scientific career.

I mention all this only because of
the latest suggestion put forward by
educationists - that more girls
would do science at A-level and uni-
versity if they had more attractive
role models. Maybe they are right,
and if the only way to test the
theory is by giving science teachers

sports cars and a dothing allowance,

that's fine by ma

The trouble is, 1 don't think it
would work. It's not the teachers so
much as the method erf teaching that
puts children oft science. There is
nothing I would like more than a
child with a scientific bent If all this
talk about the two cultures is cor-
rect - that's the 1999 version of the
two cultures, by the way: art for girls,
science for boys - then theoretically
I'm in with a chance with my sons.

Chance would be a fine thing.
Like their sisters, who did lang-
uages, they too want to speak with
tongues. Fbr Christmas last year I
gave the one who is heading for
GCSEs a wonderfully complicated
fold-up microscope to set him on
course to win the Nobel Prize for

physics. “But I'm giving up physics,
it’s so boring,” he said.

This too, it turned out, was the
eventual verdict of my daughters
friend, who read natural sciences at
Cambridge- She was one of the few

who managed to survive the Glover

gap . Rnola, all agreed, had a natural
talent for chemistry and would, one
of these days, emulate the school’s
most famous old girl, Rosamund
Frankiyn, foe DNA pioneer Alas no.
When she graduated, Flnola spent

a year doing research, then jacked

it in in favour of a science broad-
casting course. She’s now working
for television’s most popular science
programme. When I rang her yes-
terday to question her narrowly as
to why she’d given up pure science
for imp ure media, she thought I was
replying to an ad she had placed in
Time Out looking for women willing
to have their breasts enlarged.
“Why did I give up science? Because
it was too focused, too narrow and,
f rankly too boring. Imagine a whole
year studying a single molecule.”

The real issue, surely is not why
more girls aren’t doing science but
why anybody fetft doing science
these days. You need As and Bs at

A-level to read languages and liter-,
ature at university. Cs and Ds win
bag you a place to read physics or
chemistry, so desperate are the
science departments. At the rate

we’re going, the only way to lure stu-
dents into university laboratories
will be to offer them a free Nintendo
game or a season ticket to Man U
with every module.

enough store by science. Or take it
seriously. “Cambridge scientists
discover 80 new ways to tie a tie”,
was the last big science story I read.
As I came home on the bus the other

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me was reading aloud to hermothec

not from a book bnt from a p oster

“Physics is phua” it said, and went
on to describe simply but interest-
ingty why the bubbly bath disap-
pears when you put the soap in. The
rampaign is being run by the Insti-
tute of Physics and with any luck will
inspire its sister institutes to do the
same. I want to discuss this excel-
lent awareness campaign with my
son's physics teacher But, of course,
he wouldn't know anything about it -
He doesn’t use buses. He drives to
school in a Porsche.

The cruel truth about the

kids

YOU ARE a mother of small children.
A neighbour comes to the door and
asks whether he can take your
children out to the park with his own.
You know that he is a brute who
beats up his wife and that his kids
always look frightened. The wife has
ended up in hospital with face in-
juries. You would. I expect shut the
door in his face fast enough (with
luck; to catch his nose.

But if this man were the father of
your kids and you were the woman
who had ended up with broken
bones, slashes and burns, you would
not have the right to shut that door
- not unless a judge bad granted you
an injunction to keep him away
from your children. Most of the
time this does not happen, accord-
ing to an agonising Dispatches
television programme to be broad-
cast this evening.

Viewers will be shocked to learn
that ourjudkial system does not take
domestic violence into account when
deciding whether or not a child
should carry on seeing a non-
custodial parent after separation.
With 160,000 divorces a yean thou-
sands of children are affected by this
failure of the law. The partner can
be protected from further abuse, but
vulnerable children, at least until
they grow up to be teenagers, are
forced to see these men even if it
causes them untold terror.

Eight-year-old Timothy (not his
real name) cannot understand why.
He never wants to see his “first
daddy”, because he is horrible and
because he remembers him hitting
his mother Yet Timothy’s father who
had been kept for years in a psych-
iatric hospital, won the right to see
him. It took several further court
cases for Timothy to get the pro-
tection he needed

Two young sisters, also featured
in the documentary, describe how
their father bangs their heads down

Yasmin

Alibhai-Brown

As a 10-year- old victim
said, ‘Anyone can father
a child, but that doesn't
mean they can be a dad'

on the desk or stabs them with
folks if they make a mistake with
their multiplication tables, and how
they dream of him dying.

Yet the court ruled that the girls
“benefited” from seeing their father
Some mothers have been impris-
oned for refusing to follow such
rulings. Sarah, a fragile woman with
her pain bone-dry, recalls how she
pleaded with court officials but failed
to stop her husband getting access
to Jack (three) and Nina (four),
who frolic on a home video as she
tells this story. The children were
eventually killed by her husband,
who then committed suicide. “It is
too late,” she says, her voice so
gentle that you hardly hear her.

All this, you understand, is done
in the “best interests of the child".
Our society believes that a child will
thrive only if both parents are pre-
sent in his or her life. In an ideal
world, and if the parents are con-
scientious, it is not a bad principle.

But it is insane and dangerous to
make this into a pivotal, quasi-
religious belief. In ary case, it hardly
stands up to any kind of rational

scrutiny. If two biological parents are
so essential are children brought up
by widows eternally damned? Wbuld
we allow a cruel adoptive father to
have a child, because any father is
better than none?

Taking this line negates morality
and personal responsibility for
actions. What are we teaching future
generations about abusive behaviour
within families if we tell children in
such families that their love and loy-
alty for their brutalised mothers and
their own suffering in the hands of
a violent father are of no conse-
quence? That in effect, a single
sperm cell gives a man immuni ty
from social condemnation and in-
violable rights over his product? We
know from studies conducted in the
United States since the Forties that
juvenile offenders often have violent
and alcoholic fathers. Angela
Phillips, in her book, The Trouble
WftthBoys, also points out thata man
who beats up his partner “is going
to teach his son that this is normal
behaviour".

What is even more extraordinary
is that we now have in place the
Children Act, which was supposed
to give vulnerable children a half-
decent chance to make a go of their
lives. It turns out that, in this area,
the Act is more or less ineffective.

The first-ever research about
children in contact with violent
fathers after separation shows that
many of these children are neglected
and beaten and some are sexually
abused during visits. In a quarter of
the cases, the fathers were drunk
and one in seven of the children was
left on its own.

What mates it worse - and the
children say this - is that the moth-
ers are not there to safeguard them.
Dr Lorraine Radford, an expert on
children and domestic violence, is
convinced that we need a radical
rethink of the law in order to stop the

A scene from tonight's ‘Dispatches’ programme

legally sanctioned victimisation of
already traumatised children.

Why have we allowed this situa-
tion to develop? I think the reasons
lie deep within our social attitudes
to children. We still think of them as
our possessions, commodities and
chattels, to be divided up neatly after
divorce. The Dickensian father may
have become the stuff of costume
drama, but the Victorian assump-
tions of paternal power still deter-
mine our laws and behaviour In our
wisdom we rely on the truism: “He
is, after all, the father."

This means that whatever he
does, however bad he is, some dis-
tant moment of ejaculation gives a
father rights that should never ever
be taken away. As one articulate 10-
year-old points out in the
programme: “Anyone can father a
child. But that doesn't mean thqy can
be a dad.”

We need urgently to change the
law, although the Lord Chancellor's
Department appears to have no
plans for this in the near future.
According to some senior family
lawyers, it may even be possible to

use the existing Children Act to
change practice ly introducing new
guidelines for judges and court
welfare officers who make the as-
sessments on whether or not child-
ren should see their fathers. These
officers are not trained in child
psychology nor the effects of dom-
estic^ violence. Jack and Nina died be-
cause the officer in charge did not
understand the psychotic condition
of their father

But, most of all, we need to talk
to the children and to treat them as
equal citizens in our society. They are
individuals who must be entitled to
participate in decisions about
parental contact This will not hap-
pen unless we understand that we
have no absolute rights over our
children, but that as caring adults we
must promote and protect their
rights. We may give them life, but
tiieir lives are not our property. And
in the end, you have to earn thepriv-
ilege of parenting by proving that you
are worth it

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Giving rescue dogs extra appeal

4 EVERY YEAR thou-
sands of dogs end up in
the care of their local
animal rescue shelter.
Unfortunately, most of these
animals are destroyed because
they cannot be rehoused. The
chances of a sheltered dog be-
coming purchased are highly
dependent upon a visitor find-
ing it appealing.

Many factors may deter-
mine a dog's appeal and Us
consequent chances of being
purchased (eg its breed or its
cage environment), although of
interest here is the dog's be-
haviour which has been found
to influence its desirability.

Research indicates that
potential buyers prefer dogs

that are at the front rather than
the back of the cage, quiet as
opposed to barking, and alert,
ie standing, sitting or moving,
rather than non-alert ie rest-
ing or sleeping.

Unfortunately, very few
dogs in rescue shelters exhib-
it such publicly acceptable be-
haviours and their chances of
being purchased are conse-
quently at risk.

This study examined the
behaviour of sheltered dogs in
response to three types of
environmental change - in-

creased human social stimu-
lation, moving the dog’s bed to
the front of the cage, sus-
pending a toy from the front of
the dog's cage - to determine
whether it influenced dog
behaviour in ways that could be
perceived as desirable to po-
tential dog buyers.

The procedure for recording
the dogs' behaviour was exactly
the same in all three studies.
Twenty-four male and 16 fe-
male dogs of different breeds
were used as subjects. Dogs
were studied on a Sunday,
when visitors to the shelter are
relatively high in number; and
on a weekday, when there are
few visitors.

A bone chew was used as
the stimulus toy. This was sus-
pended from the front of the
cage by a chain. Dogs were
studied on a day when the toy
was present at the front of the
cage (the toy condition) and a
day when there was no toy in
the cage (the control condition).

Increased social stimulation
and the presence of a bed at the
front of the cage both signifi-
cantly influenced the dog’s
position in the cage. Both these
factors encouraged dogs to
spend more of their time at the
front of the cage and less time

Podium

Deborah Wells

From a talk by a
psychologist at the
Queen's University of
Belfast to the British
Psychological Society

at the rear. The dog’s position
in the cage was not significantly
influenced by the presence of
a toy at the front of the pea

Dogs' activity was influ-
enced by social stimulation.
They preferred to spend more
of their time standing during
the sodal condition than rest-
ing, sitting, moving or sleeping.

The presence of neither a
bed nor a toy at the front of the
pen significantly altered the
dog’s activity.

Social stimulation exerted
the greatest influence on dog
behaviour. The presence of
visitors to the shelter had a pos-
itive effect on the dogs’ position
in the cage, enticing them to
the front of the pea It also had
a positive effect on their activ-
ity, encouraging them to spend
more time standing.

These are both types of
behaviour that potential buyers
find appealing in a dog. Dogs
showed a slightly greater ten-
denqy to bark in the presence
of visitors, which may reflect
negatively upon potential buy-
ers of the animals.

However; the increase in
barking during the condition of
social stimulation was only
small. The dogs are not nec-
essarily barking at the visitors;
they may be barking in re^
sponse to the “commotion"
caused by the presence of a
large number of people.

Moving the dogs’ beds to the
front of their enclosures re-
sulted in the animals spending
more of their time at the front
of the cage. This cage manipu-
lation may help to promote
the welfare of sheltered dogs

People prefer dogs that have
a bed in the cage to those that

have no bed in the cage. Since

the dogs’ beds are normally
tept at the rear of the pea vis-
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which appears to spend most
of its time in the vicinity of its
own bed

'Very few of the dogs showed

any interest in the addition of
a toy to the cage. However it

may still be in a dog’s best in-
terests to have such an item
present Potential buyers pre-
fer dogs that have an enrich-
ment item in the cage to dogs
toat are held in a barren pea
even if the animal is not seen
playing with the stimulus.

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If you look at who is
making serious money,
it is not the people who
run large companies

WHY IS it so difficult to find some-
one to become the chief executive
of Barclays Bank? You migh t
imagine that this was one of the top
jobs in the country, but you would
also imagine that there were plenty
of people here who could do it Do
we not have a comparative advan-
tage in financial services? Surely,
somewhere in the City, there are
people who know how to run banks.

Yet Barclays felt it had to look to
America - and pay top dollar - to fill
the job, only to find out this week
that the poor chap had a dicky heart
and had to resign the same day that
he started. Back to square one.

But of course this is not just a
problem for Barclays. Hardly a day
passes without the news of some
chief executive being sacked, which
of course creates a vacancy. At any
moment there are a string of com-
panies with big boles at the top that
have to be filled and no guarantee
that the person hired will last the
pace. Ifyou are lucky you get about
two years to prove you can perform,
and if you don't you are out
This is an extraordinary contrast
to the situation 10 years ago or
more, when there was much
greater stability in top jobs. Suc-
cession was, usually, pretty orderly.
Top managers were paid much
less, but they had reasonable
security. Not everybody could get
the top job, of course, but competent
hard workers who kept their noses
dean could expect some kind of
Aboard post with all the tr imming s
Tthat went with it Why is ewaything
so different now?

Three things have changed, the
first two of which have already
recehneda lot of attention; the third,
however; is something we have .
hardly begun to understand.

First, the job of running a big
company has become much more
difficult Ten years ago businesses,
even giant multinationals, were
pretty stable. You knew what you
were making. You knew who your
customers were. You knew who
your competitors were. Now you
know none of this. Ybur present
products will be dead in a couple of
years. Your customers may be
entirely different And some com-
pany you have never heard of from
the other side of the world can come
along and wipe out your business -

David Beckham and Push Spice together make as much money as Sir Brian Pitman (right), Britain’s top banker

or take you ovec Getting people with
the breadth of skills - the wisdom,
judgement, culture, capacity for
hard work and charm - is difficult.
Good chief executives are an odd
collection of people

Secondly, companies have be-
come global, but managements
have remained largely local It is
therefore often difficult to find peo-
ple with global experience within
existing managements to run them.
Not many people qualify - and,
when you find someone who seems
to fit the bill, it may be very hard to
hire them on board. Result vast pay
packages, which themselves may
destatnhse the talent below.

But all this has been known for
someyears. What is new is the way
that what we think of as a top job -
the chief executive of a big company
- is no longer really a top job.
There are much more attractive -
and much more remunerative -
ways of earning a living.

If you want to make really big
money the last thing you do is to
wait for a big company. Fbr exam-
ple, take the man ranked in yes-
terday’s Independent as the
banker's hanfcer, the British hank er
most admired by his peers: it was

Sir Brian Pitman of Lloyds. He
spent a lifetime clawing his way up
the bank’s hierarchy and has turned
what was a very ordinary bank
into an immensely profitable one. In
terms of market value it was at one
stage last year the biggest hank in
the world -I make it number three
at the moment

But Sir Brian is not in the new
Sunday Times list of the richest
1,000 people living in Britain. The
compilers reckon be may make it
next year - his shares and options
will need to be £25m to do so. That
would put him in the same league,
they calculate, as David Beckham
and Posh Spice and way behind an
actor such as Sean Connery.

If you look at who is making
serious money in Britain, it is Dot
the people who run the big compa-
nies. It Is people who start their own
businesses or people who have
specialist skills in things such as
sport, entertainment or writing.
Aspirant writers might like to note
that Ken FoQett (thrillers) and Delia
Smith (cookery books) both make
the list ahead of Sir Brian.

People with specialist skills have
long commanded good incomes,
and people who start successful

businesses have often made for-
tunes. What is new is the scale of
the fortunes of the highly stilled and
the speed and number of new busi-
nesses that are being created.

The result is that ambitious
young people do not look to big busi-
ness. If they have specialist stills,
they develop those. If they look at
business at all they look to small
business. Maybe first they go to a
management consultancy - to the
Andersens or the Price waterhouse
Coopers - to learn the craft Then,
maybe, they have a spell in a big
business. But the best will already
be casting around for something
that they can own themselves.

This is having a profound effect
on the job market at the top because
the supply’ of good people available
to run big companies is being
continually drained by new business
start-ups. *

But. most important of all small
companies can now compete for the
good managers. Here is the choice.
Case one: a good manager can go
to a top company and get a very
good salary. a car and so on, plus
some options which may. if things
go wonderfully weU, be worth a few
hundred thousand.

Or - case two - he or she can go
to a small company where the
salary is smaller but where there is
the prospect of owning 20 per cent
of the business. If things go equally
well the company wffl be floated and
the shares worth millions.

Or - case three - he or she
starts a business, owns 100 per cent
of it and joins the list of the coun-
try’s 1,000 richest people with £25m
or more when it is floated

We are in the middle of an
entrepreneurial revolution. Tfen of
the new names in that ljQOO list were
Internet millionaires. Of course
there are risks in starting busi-
nesses. But there are also risks in
working for big companies. In pure
money terms, the glittering peaks
of small businesses have become
more attractive than the peaks at
the top of big companies. More
importantly, the risk/reward ratio
has shifted in favour of the small
Finally, there is the fun factor.
Anyone who reports on business
affairs will come to know people who
run big businesses. Viewed from the
outside it is an extraordinarily
grinding job: pressure from share-
holders, pressure from competitors,
pressure Gf things are going badly)

RusteU Boyce! Geraint Lewis

from bankers. Do everything right,
and, if your business happens to be
in the wrong corner of the com-
mercial forest, you will still lose.

By contrast people who have
marketable talents - be it acting,
writing or whatever -will know that
they are being paid to do what they
enjoy doing. People who start busi-
nesses do so because they enjoy it
Hie money comes earlier; the fun
comes straight away.

And there is a problem for soci-
ety, not just for Barclays Bank and
the other companies finding it hard
to get the right person to run them.
If die very best people won’t work
for large companies, how on earth
will they continue to supply us with
the highest quality goods and ser-
vices? Paying yet more for chief
executives may attract some talent,
but that wil] lead to even greater
social strains than we have at the
moment Hie giant question for our
giant corporations seems to me to
be this: bow do we make it as much
fun to run Barclays Bank as it
would be to become an Internet mil-
lionaire or a successful cookery
writer? Until they figure out an
answer; they will fold it ever harder
to fin their top jobs.

RIGHT
OF REPLY

STEVEN

NORRIS

The director general
of the Road Haulage
Association replies to
a leading article
attacking the hauliers

WHEN I retired from the Com-
mons to earn serious money,
I anticipated the odd crack
about Eat cattery. What I had
not foreseen was being
dubbed a ‘ ScargOlite’’ by The
Independent? s leader writer.

There is a superficial com-
parison between the miners*
strike and the recent actions
of some hauliers. Both were
prepared to use “direct ac-
tion". Both were greatly dis-
approved of by minis ters. But
the public made one funda-
mental distinction. ScargiU
was wrong, and the truckers
are right.

Scargffl was arguing for a
self-fulfilling prophecy of
doom. His class- war politics
were redundant

Hauliers, on the other hand,
are simply fighting to get their
message heard. And why do so
in convoy? WeU, the House of
Commons answer by the ’frea-
sury Minister Patricia Hewitt
says it all No. she confessed,
the ’freasury had made no
prior assessment of the impact
of the recent Budget rises in
excise duty and fuel tax on the
British haulage industry. Just
Eke that More than a year ago,
the Road Haulage Assodation
pointed out that if the Gov-
ernment took no action, 26,000
jobs would be at risk. When we
showed that another 26,000
could go in the wider economy
because ofhigher distribution
costs, again we were met by a
subtime combination of arro-
gance and indifference.

When we were not listened
to, we stopped talking and
started shouting. When even
that was ignored we started
banging the table.

I argued for two years that
there would be a serious risk
of alienating the pubfic as a
result of direct action. When
too many truckers were facing
bankruptcy, they took matters
into their own hands. It is
time for the Government to ex-
amine the problems. We want
a level playing-field. There’s
nothing Scargillite in that

♦Devolution under a microscope

RON DAVIES is famous for the
“moment of madness" with a Rasta-
farian on Clapham Common that
terminated his tenure as Secretary of
State for 'Wales. He is less well known

for his more recent moments of san-
ity about the nature of home rule. One
of these moments emerges in the
foreword to the important collection
of essays on the 1997 devolution ref-
erendums edited fay Bridget Taylor
and Katarina Thomson. These stud-
ies represent the definitive work on the
votes, with contributions from such as
David Butler, Kenneth O Morgan,
James KeOas and John Curtice.

We have come a long way since, as
Kenneth O Morgan mentions, Victor-
,jjj| I ian compilers of the Enqjdopaedia
' Britannica could compose an entry
which read “for Wales -see England”.
Yet support for the new National
Assembly in Cardiff remained grudg-
ing, attracting a “yes" vote of just 50.3
per cent Eon Davies is upfront about
this: “By failing to mobilise support for
the concept of an assembly beyond the
circles of Labour in Whies, we foiled
to broaden support for it among the

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population at large and the decision
to hold a referendum cruelly exposed
that feet"

It also exposes the fact that,
crudely. Wales may be less of a nation
than Scotland. The crucial differences
between Welsh and Scottish traditions,

their contrasting dvil societies, the dis-
tinct roles of religion and language,
and differential attitudes to “British-
ness" - too often ignored as the two
nations are routinely lumped together
for discussion -are wefl explored in
this impressive collection.

What is equally applicable to Scot-
land and wales, though, is Davies’s
insight that devolution will be not an
event but a process. What is the

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BY ANN DRY5DALE

I think the river is a long brown dog
Sniffing along an unadopted alley
Jumping the dead brown fox, the flaccid frog -
I think the river is a long brown dog
Engaged in desultory dialogue
With every sunken supermarket trolley
I think the river is a long brown dog
Sniffing along an unadopted alley

Our poems today and tomorrow come from Ann Drysdale’s
collection ‘Gay Science', published at £7.95 by Peterloo Poets.
2 Kelly Gardens. Catstock. Cornwall PL18 9SA

process leading to? Well it was sup-
posed to lead to the dishing of the Nats.
But, given that both the Scottish
National Party and Plaid Cymru are
about to become the official opposition
in their respective nations, we could
be forgiven for thinking that, so far
from making the separatists irrele-
vant, devolution will afford them a loud
voice. Welsh and Scots politics may be
permanently disfigured by policies
being debated in terms of the national
issue and, in the Scottish case, by

Qu6bec-style destabilisation as the
SNP holds out the prospect of a ref-
erendum on independence.

The long-term stability of the
devolution settlement is discussed in
another timely contribution to the
debate, by Vernon Bogdanor. There
are, as he makes clear, few successful
precedents for the experiment in
constitution-making the Government
is now embarked upon. In fact, much
of his work is taken up with enter-
taining accounts of the long and un-
happy history of attempts at
devolution in Britain, principally the
efforts of politicians, from Burke to
Gladstone to Lloyd George, to achieve
a workable scheme few keeping Ireland
in the Union.

Such attempts have mostly been in
the form (rf "asymmetrical devolution"
where, as now, some parts of the UK
were to enjoy different degrees of
autonomy. But these, and more sym
metrical German or US-style solutions
(where all states have equal powers),
always ran up against the same

tensions. These came from the ques-
tion of representation at Westminster;
from the unbalanced basis for devo-
lution when 85 per cent of the popu-
lation live in England, a place with no
political identity of its own; the feeble
demand for regional assemblies in
England: and tussles over money.
The only province of the UK to exper-
ience a prolonged period of devolved
government is the one part that never
wanted it - Northern Ireland, from
1921 to 1972 an Orange statelet and an
unhappy experience.

What does give grounds for limited
optimism is the International experi-
ence of asymmetrical devolution.
According to Bogdanor, in Spain,
Belgium and Italy devolution has led
not to break-up but to power-sharing.

In Catalonia and the Basque country
it has weakened the demand for
independence. But this is not an
inevitable outcome. Formal and in-
formal mechanisms and a coalitionist
culture exist to accommodate the
inevitable problems.

Asymmetrical devolution works, in
other words, where there is a will for
it to work. Donald Dewar wffl settle dif-
ferences with Tony Blair amicably
enough. But imagine him - or the SNP
leader Alex Salmond - dealing with an
“ultra-low-tax" UK Tory administra-
tion led by Michael Portillo. If Portillo
wanted, say radical reform of welfare,
then the Scots could simply reply:

“Either this nonsense stops at the bor-
der, or we want out of the Union."

The absence of a will to balance the
concepts of the supremacy of West-
minster, with its “reserved powers",
and of devolution itself would make
separatism inevitable. What we have
is not so much devolution, then, as a
Scots insurance policy against the
return of Thatcherism, secured on a
local popular mandate. Scotland leav-
ing the UK? It might take only a
moment of madness.

Sean O’Grady

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The Right Rev

Mgr Thomas

Hughes

Thomas hughes was a man of the

people. A parish priest first and a
member of the Catholic hierarchy
second, his teaching was eloquent,
down to earth, and dear. While he
will be best remembered by his
flock for the pastoral care he
showed them, it is for his patient
overseeing of the construction of
Clifton Cathedral in Bristol that his
diocese has cause to be thankful for
his 60 years of service.

Following the Reformation, it
was not until the political emanci-
pation of 1829 that En glish Catholics
were able openly to construct a
church in Bristol Vfork began in 1834
but the site, like many hillside areas
of the rapidly expanding city, proved
treacherous, and tire original design,
for a grandiose Victorian edifice,
was abandoned
In 1846, the Vicar Apostolic, Bish-
op Ullathorae, raised a fund to roof
the half-finished building. A timber
structure based on the principles of
inverted ship construction was
added and the church was formal-
ly opened in September 1848. With
the restoration of the Catholic hier-
archy in England by Pope Pius IX
two years latex; Clifton became an
Episcopal See, and the Church of the
Twelve Apostles became the pro-
cathedral until such time as a cathe-
dral proper could be constructed
It was to this pro-cathedral that
Thomas Hughes, a 23-year-old
farmer's son from Co Kilkenny,
came to be ordained in 1939. With
three of bis brothers already priests,
Hughes had studied at Prior Park
College in Bath and later at the Col-
lege of St Sulpice in Paris. He served
his curacies in Chipping Campden.
Gloucestershire, and at the pro-
cathedral. Subsequently he was a
parish priest in both Bristol and Bath
before being appointed parish priest
of the pro-cathedral and Vicar Gen-
eral of the Clifton Diocese in 1962.

Although there was much work to
be done in the diocese - particular-
ly as the bishop, Bishop Rudderbam,
was heavily involved in the Second
Vatican Council - Hughes main-

The principal
requirement for
Clifton Cathedral
was to provide a
space where a
congregation of
1,000 could be
grouped closely
around the altar

tained that his first priority was to
the parishioners of the pro-cathedral
in the Georgian quarter of Bristol His
vision fora suitable building to be the
centre of diocesan worship was
shared by his colleagues and in Au-
gust 1965 architects from the Percy
Thomas Partnership were commis-
sioned to undertake the design and
construction of a new cathedral.

The Council's decree on liturgi-
cal worship helped to focus attention
at the embiyonic Clifton Cathedral
on the participation by all the peo-
ple with the bishop and their priests
in the celebration of the Eucharist
The principal requirement was

therefore to provide a space where
a congregation of 1.000 could be
grouped closely around the altar so
that they should feel and be a part
of the celebration of the mass.

The foundation stone was laid by
Bishop Rudderham in September
1970 and work was completed on
time and on budget at an overall cost
including adjacent clergy bouse and
offices, of £800.000. This was in no
small part due to Hughes's inspired
stewardship. The cathedral was
dedicated to St Peter and St Paul in
the presence of the Archbishop of
Westminster Cardinal Heenan, on 29
June 1973, the feast of those two
Apostles. On the same day came
news that Hughes was to be hon-
oured for his work by Pope Paul VI
with the title Protonotary Apostolic.

The cathedral is the mother
church of the Diocese of Clifton
which covers the regions of North
Somerset, Bath, North and South
Gloucester, Wiltshire, South Som-
erset and Bristol More than 130.000
Catholics look to it not so much as
an architectural monument, but as
a symbol and focus for the unity of
the church. From the start Hughes
ensured the cathedral gained an in-
ternational reputation for the cele-
bration of the liturgy. The building
is also regularly used for public
concerts, continuing the centuries-
old tradition of the Church's pa-
tronage of the arts.

Following heart surgery by Pro-
fessor Magdi Yacoub. Hughes retired
in 1981 to St Angela's Convent in
Bristol from where he kept in touch
with his many friends. He continued
to work throughout the diocese,
preaching, teaching and leading
days of prayer. He was the first per-
son to be buried in the grounds of the
new cathedral.

TIM BULLAMORE

Thomas John Hughes, priest: bom
Johnstown. Co Kilkenny 19 July
1915; ordained priest 1939; Vicar
General, Diocese of Clifton 2962-SI;
Protonotary Apostolic 1973; died
Bristol 1 April 1999.

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YOU WILL have heard of a president
for life - Dr Hastings Banda of
Malawi is one example - but maybe
not of a prime minister for life. How-
ever, that in essence is what could
have happened in the last remain-
ing Polynesian kingdom, the King-
dom of Tonga, after Queen Salote
died in 1965. She was succeeded as
sovereign by her first son and pre-
mier, Prince Tupouto'a Tungi. The
constitution of Tonga (virtually
unchanged since 1875 and allowing
no political parties i empowers the
head of state to appoint ail ministers
of the Crown; and in those Friend-
ly Islands of the South Pacific, he or
she who appoints does not normal-
ly disappoint.

So it was that Tungi. having be-
come King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV.
then named his younger brother to
succeed him as premier and later
prime minister. It was a post which
Prince Fbtafehi Tu’ipelehake. the
second son of Queen Salote Tupou
HI and Prince Viliami Tupoulahi
Tungi. was to hold without inter-
ruption, and without having to face
the polls, for close to 26 years. It is
easy to see why he was frequently
the longest serving prime minister-

ial incumbent at biennial Common-
wealth Heads of Government meet-
ings until in August 1991. ill-health
compelled his retirement

The two royal brothers were com-
parable in size and weight -at least
7001b between them for many years
- but they were widely different in
temperament, personality, intellect
and style. Tu’ipelehake’s more
modest" scholastic attainments can
be attributed to Newington College,
a Methodist secondary school in
Sydney to which royal Tbngan sons
and those of the nobility were often
sent: and to Gatton Agricultural
College in Queensland. The broth-
ers were both married, in a joint
royal wedding ceremony, in 1947.
From 1949 to 1951 Tu’ipelehake was
governor of Vava’u. the northern of
the three main groups of islands that
make up Tbnga. of which some 36 are
permanently inhabited.

It is true (hat the younger prince
had no pretensions to intellectual
stature. Indeed, you could say that
he spent all his life - not only in that
respect - in the shadow of his elder
brother, the King. Yet whereas the
new King in 1965 was aloof - while
deeply respected and inspiring awe

as the pinna de of Tongan rank -
Tu’ipelehake was approachable,
open, generous-hearted and jovial.

IBs laughter was huge, infec-
tious and uncomplex. His warmth
and humanity were that of his moth-
er to this way ft vras to Ibipelehake
that she lived on in the perceptions
of ordinary Tongans; for he too was
loved by his people. And then there
was his unexpected modesty - un-
expected, that is, in one so well
placed by birth and thus favoured at

home and abroad. It never left him
in spite of the preferments, the cus-
tomary sahitafaais, gifts and tributes
- and limousines.

In 1966, he was appointed an
honorary CBE in the Queen's Birth-
day List We wrote from Fiji to con-
gratulate him. He replied, using
our Tbnggn names, to say that: '"Hie
award is very hi gh indeed, yet it
was a great surprise to me, as I
cannot think- of any accomplish-
ment that I have done.” Four years
later Tbnga, which had been a
British protectorate since 1909, ac-
quired full independence within
the Commonwealth.

In February 1991, I called on
Th’ipelehake after a meeting of the

Privy Council He had presided as "
Prince Regent in the absence of the
King , who was in New Zealand. He
was seated across fee floor in fee
great chair reserved for the head of
state. On the wall above him, sym- -
bolically, was a large colour photic
graph of his elder brother in the full
dress unifo rm of King and Com-,
mander in Chief.

The lines of strain on Ms face had
deepened; the voice was high andfel-
teringrthe eyes wandered; the smile
was pale and fleeting. But the
warmth was still there. Afterwards,
soldiers lifted him slowly and care-
folly from fee than: They steadied
his slow, stick-aided progress to
the entrance of the chamber and
gentry helped him into HM2, the
blade hearse-like limousine which
waited outside.

.-t

Kenneth Bain

FOtafehi Ihipelehake: bom 7 Jan-
vary 1922; Governor qfVaxxfu 1949-
51 ; Prime Minister qflbnga 1965-91;
Hon CBE 1966, Hon KBE 1977;
married 194 7 Princess Melenaite
Topou Moheafa (died 1992; two
sons. Jour daughters ); died Auck-
land, New Zealand 10 April 1999.

Frank Tuohy

WHEN FRANK Tuohy was born, it
was soon discovered that he had a
then inoperable heart condition, a
hole in fee heart, and his father, a
doctor of Irish origin, came to fee
tragic conclusion that it was
extremely unlikely that he would
survive into his twenties. It was only
after fee introduction of open-heart
surgery, when Tuohy was already in
his forties, that a successful oper-
ation was performed. Now, instead
of living with the fear that each
day might be his last, Tuohy sud-
denly realised that he could look for
ward to a normal life span.

That for so many years he lived
so closely with fee idea of imminent
death must have accounted, in some
part at least, for fee stoical fatalism
that he brought in equal measure to
his writings and his life. Both were
not without fear fon - he had a ready
wit, an acute sense of file ridiculous,
and an ability to enjoy himself and
give enjoyment to others if they
were the right sort of people and he
in the right mood -but in both books
and life he gave the impression of
always being morbidly aware of
human mortality.

It was fee fragility of his health
. that resulted in his failure, despite
success in Moral Sciences and Eng-
lish at King’s College, Cambridge, to
be accepted into the permanent
service of the British Council In-
stead, the Co until appointed him to
a number of academic posts abroad.
The second of these, after a brief
period in Finland, was a szx-year
tenure of the Chair of English Lit-
erature at S&o Paulo University,
Brazil, which provided him with fee
inspiration for two novels set in a

South America of corruption, erratic
passions, and political disorder

The first of these novels. The
Animal Game (1957) centres on a
numbers game in which fee num-
bers have fee names of animals. All
the characters, Tuohy suggests,
have entered a lottery merely by
living. The same theme of life being
dominated by capricious chance
was to reappear explicitly or im-
plicitly, in much else that he wrote.

After this brilliant d£but he pro-
duced a successor. The Warm
Nights of January (i960), no less
remarkable in its ability, in a mere
200 pages, to distil the essence,
potent and sometimes even lethal
of life in an environment so differ-
ent from the cultivated, prosperous,
upper middle-class one in which be
had been brought up.

Aposting to Krakow University re-
sulted in The Ice Saints (1964). The
year is 1960, and a young English girl
arrwesm aunweratytovra of People’s
Poland, on a visit to her elder sister;
who is married to a Polish professor,
also a party member Inevitably, it is
only a matter of time before nation-
al conventions and beliefs come into
collision wife each other and before
the unsophisticated En glish girl falls
in love wife a highly sophisticated
and, it finally emerges, duplicitous
Pole. The only failure of this novel
is Tuohy’s shirking of any attempt
to describe the sexual seduction of
fee girl by fee man. It is about to take
place, and then it has taken place;
there is nothing in between.

As a writer Tuohy resembled
Somerset Maugham in being ill at
ease wife sex, usually viewing it as
something at best ludicrous and at

Tuohy: mordant Mark Gerson

worst nasty. In all other respects
this is a masterly novel, at once
ferociously funny and compassion-
ately sad in its depiction of the
subterfuges and small betrayals by
which people struggle to survive in
a Communist state.

After these three books, which, in
the words of CJR Snow, established
Tuohy “in fee first Sight of English
novelists,” he produced no more
novels. There was,. fortunately, the
compensation of three marvellously
varied and rich collections of short
stories. Critics often compared him
to Chekhov in his deceptively matter-
of-fact manner and the way in which
the events that he described were so
often a part of everyone's experience.
But a comparison to Maupassant
would be even more apt Each story,
mordant, concise and a small mira-
cle of construction, represents, as he
himself put it, “a painful bite down on
fee rotten tooth of feet”.

In his latter years, Tuohy’s output
dwindled sadly. Even the honours
which came his way - among them,
the Katherine Mansfield Short Story
Prize for his first book of stories The
Admiral and die Nuns in 1960, the
James Thit Black Memorial Prize for
The Ice Saints in 1965, and the final
accolade of the E.M. Forster Award
of the American Institute of Arts and
Letters in 1972 - did not dissolve the
recurrent writer's block from which
he suffered.

Fbr some 20 years, while filling un-
exacting but lucrative university
posts in Japan, he was working on
a fourth novel, left uncompleted on
his death. When not engaged on it
he wrote an excellent biography of
Yeats, a short book about Portugal
and some more fine short stories.
His lack of productivity may have
accounted, in part at least, for his
intermittent sombreness and mis-
anthropy during his last years.

Frank Tuohy set extremely high
standards for others in his brilliant
and Ear too rare work as a reviewer.
He set even higher standards for
himself, and destroyed anything
that in his opinion, fell below them.
That was admirable, but also a
cause for regret. Even at his second
best he was better than most of his
contemporaries at their best

Francis King

John Francis Tuohy , novelist
and short story writer bom Uck-
field. East Sussex 2 May 1925:
Professor of English Language
and Literature. University of
Sdo Paulo 1950-56; FRSL 1965:
died Shepton Mallet, Somerset
11 April 1999.

Roger Fressoz

BEHIND ITS constitutional facade
of Liberie. Egalite. Fratemite,
French political life remains rife
with nepotism and financial
shenanigans. Thankfully, the satir-
ical weekly paper he Canard
Enchaine. France’s answer to Pri-
vate Eye, keeps a watchful eye over
the misbehaviour of politicians and
the business community.

Roger Fressoz, the journalist who
in 1968 became the paper's eefitoc (fid
more than most to expose various
scandals. He quadrupled the paper's
circulation, generated more debate
and controversy than the rest of the
French media put together and af-
fected the results of several elections.

Bom in the Savoie area of East-
ern France in 1921, Fressoz was 30
when he joined Le Canard Enchamfr,
at the time it was struggling to sell
100.000 copies a week. Fressoz's ar-
rival coincided with a period of great
upheaval for the paper and France's
stuttering Fourth Republic, with its
short-lived coalition governments.
Under the pseudonym AndrO Rib-
aud, Fressoz added an investigative
slant to what had mostly been a col-
lection of satirical tracts, humorous
pamphlets and cartoons. “Fbr God's
sake, let’s have some facts!,” he was
fond of saying. Equally, fee slightest
innaccuracy drove him up the wall
“You have to understand feat I take
any cock-up personally like a dagger
going straight through my heart”.

Le Canard became a thorn in the
establishment's side, denouncing
the French array’s use of torture dur-
ing the Algerian war of indepen-
dence. Throughout the Sixties, De
Gaulle's regal behaviour was lam-
pooned in “La CarwT (“Hie Court”),

a pseudo-historical column written
by Fressoz. “Using an old-fashioned
style enables you to be much more
vicious. The subjunctive imperfect
is more civilised and. the more polite
and polished your style, fee stronger
fee material can be,” he explained.

He became deputy editor in 1963
and editor five years later In his mis-
sion statement he declared:

Le Canard should act the court-jester;
taunting the prince and his sycophantic
courtiers, but also be the safeguard of the
Republic, denouncing the excesses, the
mistakes, the abuses of people in power
in order to protect the average citizen.

De Gaulle's departure in 1968
saw Fressoz's column adopt the
heading “ La RegenceT to report on
Georges Pompidou. Subsequently,
Le Canard played a major role in
exposing Jacques Chaban Deimas's
creative use of tax havens just as the
mayor of Bordeaux had his sights
trained on the Elysde. The French

industrialist Marcel Dassault's tax.
returns were also gleefully published.

Fallowing Pompidou's death in
office. Valery Giscard d'Estaing
acceded to fee presidency in 1974.
Ridiculed as “Le Chevalier d’Au-
vergneT, he fell foul of Le Canard
when he accepted a gift of jewels
from the African head of state Jean
Bedel Bokassa without declaring it
The ensuing furore undoubtedly
contributed to Frangois Mitterrand’s
election victory in 1981.

“7bnttm” (“Uncle”) Mitterrand
instantly blotted his copybook wife
Le Canard fry appointing his son as
special adviser on African affairs.
Fressoz also wasted no time in ex-
posing the President’s friendship
with Rend Bousquet, a P6tamiste
who in 1942 had rounded up 13,000
Jews in Paris before handing them
over to the Germans. In 198L Le Ca-
nard bad accused Maurice Papon of
a similar offence, starting a lengthy
investigation which led to Papon’s
eventual trial two years ago.

With such reporting zest and
an impressive flair for scoops, Le
Canard now regularly sells half a
million copies and is a truly inde-
pendent newspaper on a sound fi-
nancial footing. However; Fressoz,
who became chairman and manag-
ing (Erector of the publication in 1970 ,
eventually retired due to ill-health
in 1992, although he was still a
regular contributor.

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Brownie Mary

SHE CUT an unforgettable figure,
looking for all the world like some-
one’s kindly grandmother as she
distributed her “magically deli-
cious" brownies among the Aids
patients of San Francisco General
Hospital. Mary Jane Rathbun -
Brownie Mary, as she became uni-
versally known - may have looked
harmless enough, but she was a
rebel at heart who became fee stuff
of San Francisco legend.

Fbr more than 20 years she baked
her chocolate cakes, at first selling
them in the city’s Castro district out
of a napkin-lined basket and then,
after the onset of fee Aids epidemic
m the early 1980s, turning her kitchen
into a veritable production line to
ease the nausea and pain of patients
in the terminal stages of their illness.

She called Aids patients her “kids”
and, at the height of heractivity, baked
as many as 1^00 brownies a month

wife the money from her social se-
curity cheques, as well as the help of
anonymous well-wishers who left
dumpsofmai^uanaonherdoor^ep.

She not only became a hero to San
Francisco's gay community, but took
up fee broader cause of legalising
marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Thanks to her; fee issue found its way
on to a popular ballot in 1996, making
California fee first state to contem-
plate fee medical use of soft drugs.

Bom in Minnesota to an Irish
Catholic mother oblivious to the
druggy connotation the name Mary
Jane was to have, she came to San
Francisco during the Second World
War with two girlfriends, found work
as a waitress and married a soldier
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to the early 1970s, when her 22-year-
old daughter Jenny died to a car ac-
cident With her marriage long since
over and her only child gone, she

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of the Castro and formed a near
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tivities, she spent hundreds of hours
doing community service with Aids
patients and. after experimenting to
ease the pain of arthritis in her own
knees, became the figurehead of the

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County to 1992. her feme was such
that the police did not dare press
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Bob Cato

IN OUR self-conscious era, the art
director has moved from anonymity to
creative celebrity. Bob Cato is part of this
pantheon, not only because he designed
many cult record sleeves but also be-
cause he embodied the hip Manhattan
art director is his golden era.

It was a world of Martini lunches,
sharp suits, chain-smoking soirees and
a cultural savvy which today's design-
ers look back on with nostalgia. Cato
was the ultimate 11 sophistical", with
the emphasis on “cat”: an expert on
modern jazz and James Joyce, a
fabled cook, sculptor; photographer
and collagist

Bom in New Orleans in 1923 to a
Cuban dmigrOe mother and business
executive father; Cato moved with his
family when he was 15 to Mexico
City, where he began to study art with
Josd Clemente Orozco and Pablo
O'Higg ins . During the Second World
War; Cato was imprisoned as a
conscientious objector; and then moved
to Chicago to study with Ldszld
Moholy-Nagy.

In 1947 he went to work far Alexey
Brodovitch, the legendary art director
at Harper’s Bazaar, and one of most in-
fluential and revered figures in his
field. As well as helping him at Harper’s,
Cato also assisted with the famous
classes Brodovitch gave at the New
School for Social Research. As Cato
wrote far the catalogue of the 1972 show
“Brodovitch and his Influence" at the
Smithsonian in Washington,

I became Alexey’s “Man Friday" and all-
round assistant in New York. I drove his car,
worked at Junior Bazaar and “Big" Bazaar;
cooked for him, kept the attendance books
at school did the shopping and generally
kept things together for him and Mrs. B. 1
bad been involved with the jazz scene for
many years and it gave Alexey a great deal
of pleasure to play host to my many musi-
cian friends, who would drop by to talk and
drink Scotch with us.

Brodovitch was a strong influence on
the young Cato, as on many designers
of the period. As his men tor did, so Cato
took numerous photographs of dancers,
including a renowned series of Paul
Taylor used as the cover for Dance Ob-
server in 1960. Two of Cato's record cov-
ers were included in the Smithsonian
Brodovitch show: Simon & Garftaikei,
a printed offset collage (Columbia
Records, 1968); and bis colour photo-
graph of Miles Davis used for the cover
of Miles (United Artists Records, 1970).
In 1960 Cato joined CBS-Columbia
Records as art director and vice-
president of creative services, a job be

. held for a decade.

* It was here that he created record
covers for artists ranging from Leonard
Bernstein to the jazzer Charles Lloyd,

Cato’s cover design for Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967); it won him a
Grammy Award Sony

for albums including Bob Dylan's
Basement Tapes, Moandog Matinee by
The Band and From Every Stage by
Joan Baez.

Cato was willing to experiment in any
direction, as recounted in Al Khoper’s
memoir Backstage Passes and Back-
stabbing Bastards . published earlier
this year. Fbr a 1967 Blood, Sweat and
Itears record Cato photographed the

cover" Cato contacted Rockwell and the
cover was thus created.

One 0/ Cato's most infamous choic-
es was of Robert Crumb illustrations for
Jams Joplin's Cheap Thrills (1968).
The recent Joplin bio by Alice Echols
explains this had not been the original
conception:

Columbia’s art director had planned a dif-
ferent cover, a photo of the group in bed in

In the art director's world of Martini
lunches , sharp suits , chain-smoking soirees
and cultural savvy , Cato was the ultimate
‘sophisticate with the emphasis on e cat 9

band with little children in their laps,
each child’s face replaced by the face of
the person whose lap they occupied and
entitled it Child is Father to the
Man. For the 196B double-set Live
Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and A]
Hooper, Khoper recounts that "I called
Bob Cato the CBS art director at home
to ask if Norman Rockwell could dotbe

a hippie crash pad. The band arrived and dis-
covered a bedroom done up in pink frills -
like no hippie pad they’d been in. "Let's trash
it, boys," Janis declared, and they did. The
shot of them in bed naked, the bed covers
pulled up only to their waists, was junked in
favor of Crumb's caricatures.

Crumb himself was excited by the
project but stated; "When I meet Janis
I want to be able to pinch her tit."

Months later they met at a party and
Crumb grabbed her breast. Joplin
looked at him and said, “Ob honey!”

Cato worked with artists such as
Robert Rauschenberg and Warhol as
well as cartoonists and psychedelic
illustrators, although he also often shot
the cover work himself, as with Miles.
Cato won Grammy awards far two
cover designs, Barbra Streisand’s Peo-
ple (1964) and Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits
(1967), as well as the President’s Merit
Award in 1997. Cato's importance in
turning record cover design into an es-
tablished art form cannot be underes-
timated. Philip Meggs' definitive History
af Graphic Design (1998) has this to say:
The design staff of CBS Records operated
at the forefront of the graphic interpretation
of music. Conceptual image making
emerged as a significant direction in album
design during the early 1960s, after Bob
Cato became head of the Creative Services
department . . . photographs of musicians
performing and portraits of composers
yielded to more symbolic and conceptual
images.

Having set up his own design com-
pany, Squadra Gallileo Inc. Cato also de-
signed books on everyone from Garbo,
Swanson, Dietrich and Corbusier to the
painter Oscar de Mejo and the collect-
ed poetry of Aime Cesaire, as well as a
series on Life photographers. Cato was
often featured on the front page in billing
as large as the author or illustrator, one
of his most sumptuous works being
Celebrating the Negative (1994), a
collection of photo negatives published
by Arcade.

In 1975 Macmillan published The
Great Garlic Cookbook by Cato and Bar-
bara Fried! ander. As the latter was
vegetarian Cato created and tested all
the meat fish and poultry dishes, their
titles revealing his range of friends:
“Spiedini for Leo Lionni" (the famed
children's book illustrator), "A Hot Shot
for Bob Dylan". “Topolski’s Garlic and
Paprika Pork Loin" and "Shrimp and
Mushroom Appetizer for Joel Grey".

Cato's love of modern literature cul-
minated in one of his finest achieve-
ments, Joyce Images (1994), drawings
and photographs compiled by Cato and
Greg Vi hello with an introduction by An-
thony Burgess. This book featured a
striking jacket design and iD us (ration of
Joyce by Cato as well as an acknowl-
edgement thanking his mother. . . who
read to him from Ulysses when be
was just eight years old and who gave
him a 1926 edition of the book which he
still has.”

ADRIAN DANNATT

Bob Cato, art director, photographer
and artist bom New Orleans 1923;
died New York 19 March 1999.

OBITUARIES/7

Evolutionary notes

Jeffrey Schwartz

A species produced
in an instant

IN THE early 1970s. against
the backdrop of Darwinian
gradualism, Niles El dredge
and Stephen Jay Gould
published a version of Otto
SdiindewolFsnon-Darwuan
theory; that gaps in the fos-
sil record exist because
species arise through a pro-
found reorganisation, after
which they chang e no more.
In Eldredge and Gould’s
model however; a small pe-
ripheral population becomes
isolated from the parent
species and rapidly changes.
Being smafl, it leaves little ev-
idence in the fossil record of
intermediates, ergo the gaps.

Population geneticists,
being Darwinians, rejected
Eldredge and Gould's “model
of punctuated equilibria". Fbr
them, experiments had long
demonstrated that mutation
constantly fuels the variation
upon which natural selection
acts. The process of species
change never stops. Mapy pa-
leontologists also claimed
that, if fossils are collected
properly, one sees a picture
of gradual transformation.

How came one view of
evolution to dominate the
field? When Darwin pub-
lished On the Origin of
Species in 1859. Thomas
Henry Huxley admonished
him for embracing gradual-
ism. Like other comparative
anatomists. Huxley was a
saltationisL for whom the
emergence of species was a
profound event Darwin in-
corporated Jean Lamarck’s
ideas on use and disuse into
his theory of blending inher-

itance, pangenesis. But the
geneticists of the late 1800s
and early 1900s - such as
Willia m Bateson, Hugo de
Vries, and the young Thomas
Hunt Morgan - rejected
these conceits, as well as
natural selection.

Fbr them, variation is not
continuous, species arise
rapidly via large-scale
organisznal reorganisation,
arid, as for selection, if a new
feature doesn't kill you, you
have it Ironically, Morgan
later revived Darwinism by
plaiming that he had demon-
strated gradual change ex-
perimentally: if, in the
laboratory you could change
the length of fruit-fly wings
over many generations,
imagine what natural selec-
tion in the wild could do over
millions of years?

Via mathematical manip-
ulation, Ronald Fisher meld-
ed Morgan's idea with an
expanded version of Dar-
winian natural selection with
organisms’ features haring
purpose and selection opting
for the most advantageous.
This Darwinism became the
bailiwick of the founders of
the Evolutionary Synthesis -
among them Theodosius
Dobzhansly Ernst Mays and
George Gaylord Simpson -
who proposed that large-
scale systemic mutations
quickly create new species.

But the language of evo-
lution that emerged from the
Synthesis had lost the fun-
damentals of heredity on
which the early geneticists
had based their theories.

Non-lethal mutations arise in
the recessive state and are
thus inaccessible to selection.
Only after many generations
of the mutant recessive being
passed on will there be a
sufficient number of het-
ero zygotes with a dominant
wild and the new allele to pro-
duce homozygotes with two
recessive alleles, in whom the
effects of the mutation can
then be expressed. At some
point a recessive may be con-
verted to the dominant state.

The result of this process
is that a new feature will ap-
pear suddenly, without a trail
of transitional forms and in a
number of homozygotes,
who, along with heterozy-
gotes, will continue to pro-
duce individuals with the new
feature. But, depending on
the genes behind the fea-
tures, the impact of mutation
and inheritance wili be worlds
apart In terms of. say struc-
tural genes for eye colour or
height the result is individ-
ual variation. But in terms of
regulatory genes involved in
the development of, for in-
stance, fins versus limbs with
feet or animals that are radi-
aDy or bilaterally symmetrical
the effect will be profound.

This is the stuff of evolu-
tion, which produces new
species, without geographic
isolation, in an instant

Dr Jeffrey Schwartz is the
author of 'Sudden Origins:
fossils, genes and the emer-
gence of species" (published
in May, John Wiley &
Sons , £29.99)

SOZ

Births,

Marriages

& DEATHS

Deaths

FLEET: Edgar. Aged 67 years,
died very suddenly on Saturday
10 April 1999. Much loved by
Suzanne, his son Matthew and
daughter-in-law Penny and
grandchildren EmDy and Molly,
ne wiU be sadly missed by all ms
friends and family Requiem at
Holy Redeemer Church, Cheyne
Row, Chelsea, at MUfflam on Fri-
day 23 April 1999. Private crema-
torium committal

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• - : f. j IN MY round-up of Easter tour-

", \s, K M laments tot Friday; I still

„ : ■ hadn’t received all the results.

• A total of 121 players took part

;'J. in the Bolton Easter Congress

*' c: - ‘ in three sections, 27 of which

v - were in the Open, won by Ben

Hague (Rochdale) on 5/6. Paul
Macklin (Chariton) and Brett
* Lund (Preston) scored 4J5.

In Sheffield, 128 played in
; ■' J,’ . • ' r ’ ; four sections. In the Open Ste-

. - ' m jZ - : ";>■ phen Bell (Gateshead library)

* made 5.5/6, a point clear of

•’ V-"’ ' Richard Palliser (Hull) and

' J Peter Hempson (Ecdesall) on
u/ 45. The largest section vras the

_ |I ^**‘**'"'*^ major; won by Paul Roberts

(Sheffield) on 55/6.

Here are two of the victor’s
five wins:

After the excellent 17
...Na5l Black got the advant-
■f ageonffiequeenside. I6b4was
. r i bad but if 16 Rbl Nxc4 17 bxc4
_ <17djto46iswarse;17...Bd7

" *”j, : , also looks pleasant for Black.

" ; ; " Black emerged with an

'a extra passed “a pawn” and
•.v~' ' P converted the advantage
■?' cleanly. At the end, there’s no
, . '.|3 /. £ defence to the stow but deadly
plan of ...a3, — Sal, ...as,
. ‘ ,, rv - : V? ,..R moves and ...al-Q.

BIRTHDAYS

Lord Archer of Weston-super-
Mare, novelist, 59; Dame Joce-
lyn Barrow, former deputy
c hairman. Broadcasting Stan-
dards Council 70; Sir Kenneth
Bloomfield, BBC National Gov-
ernor for Northern Ireland, 68;
Gp Capt David Bolton, chair-
man. Macbeth Associates, 67;
Str Michael Bond, Professor of
Psychological Medicine, Glas-
gow University, 63; Sir Adrian
Cadbury, a director of the Bank
of England, 70; Mr Tony
Calvert, founder; the Terrence
Higgins D-ust, 43; Miss Claudia
Cardinal e, actress, 61; Mr
Dave Edmunds, rock guitarist,
55; Sir Richard Evans, former
diplomat, 73U Miss Samantha
Fbx, singer and model 33; Lord
Geraint fanner MR 74;
Professor Michael Gibbons,
Secretary-General Association
of Commonwealth Universities,
60; Mr Fbtricfc Gillam, chair-
man, Standard Chartered pic,
66; Lord Grey of Naunton,
former Chancellor, Ulster
University, 89; Mr John Grigg,
historian, 75; Sir David Keene,
High Court judge, 59; Sir Hugh
Laddie, High Court judge. 53;
Baroness Linklater of
Bntterstone, 56; Sir Neville
Marriner, conductor, 75; Sir
Peter Menzies. former chair-
man, Electricity Council 87; Mr

CHESS

JON SPEELMAN
White: Jim Barnett

King’s Indian Reversed

1NQC5

19 Rbl Nxc5

2g3d5

20 Bxc5 Qxc5

3 BgZ Nf$

21 Rxb7 RBl8

40-0 g6

22 Rxb8+Rxb8

5d3Bg7

23f4Bb3

6 NM2M

24Qf3Bxa4

7e4Nc6

25&e5Bb3

8c3 Qc7

28QE aS

9Reld4

27 NfS Bxe5

lOcaM cxd4

28Nxe5Qxe5

U Notes

29 QfB Qxf6

12a4Nd7

30 Rxf 6 BeG

13Rfl Nc5

31 Rfl Rb2

JANeiBefi

32RalBa2

JSb3Na5!

33 Bfl a4

16b4 _Jfac4

34 Rcl BbS

17bxc5Na5!

35Rc8+Kfe7

!8Ba3NbS

36RaSRa2 0-l

• V>'‘ .CV

Taking the bait with 14
...Bxc3!? was arguably rather
fo olhar dy but far from absurd;
the a pawn may not look im-
portant but it does provide po-
tential support for a later b4
shifting the important black
knight Black would be quite
pleased then to give up a rook
for White’s black-squared bish-
op and Ktoaity another pawufor
a resultant blockaded position.

Gazette

Alan Hater, screenwriter; 64:
Mr David Rendet MP. 50; Earl
Russell historian. 62: Sir
Maurice Shock, former Rector,
Lincoln College. Oxford, 73; Sir
Leslie Smith, former chairman.
BOC Group. 80; Sir Robert
Smith MP, 41; Dr Godfrey
Stafford, farmer Master; St
Cross College. Oxford, 79; Miss
Emma Thompson, actress. 40;
Miss Meriol Trevor, novelist
and biographer, 80; Dr Richard
von Weizsacker. former
president of Germany, 79; Sir
Douglas Wass, chairman,
Nomura International 76: Mr
Marty Wilde, rock singer and
composer, 60.

ANNIVERSARIES

Births: Nanak, founder of the
Sikhs, 1469; William Augustus,
Duke Of Cumberland, military
commander, 1721; Henry James,
aovelisl 1843; Bessie Smith,
blues sin gee 1694. Deaths:
Lorenzo Lippi, poet and painter;
1664; Jeanne- Antoinette Poison-
Le Normant d’Etoiles, Marquise
de Pompadour; mistress of King
Louis XV 1764; Abraham Lin-
coln, 16th US president, from a
shot wound, 1865; Matthew
Arnold, educationist and poet,
1888; John Singer Sargent por-
trait painter; 1925; Wallace
Beery, actor; 1949; Jean-Pa ui

But having given up the
bishop, Black had to be ex-
tremely careful - eg 16 ...Qa5
looked sensible. He tried to Lake
the initiative by throwing for-
ward both knights and 18
...Rac8 but 19 e5! was a dear
refutation, after which White
got a large dear advantage.

If 19 ...Qxci20Qxc4 RXC4 21
b3 wins a piece; or 19 ...dxe5 £0
Bh6 ffi 21 Bxffi Rxffi 22 Bxb7 etc.
20 Rxb6 followed by 2 1 exd6 de-
molished Black’s structure. At
the end if 26 .. -ffi (if 26 ...Qe6
27 Qh8+ will mate) 27 Qb8+
Kf7 28 Rd7+ leads to mate.

White: Stephen Bell
Blade Richard Pailiser
King's Indian Defence

1 d4 NfB
2c4g6
3g3Bg7
4 Bg2 0-0
5Nc3d6
6NBc6
70-0Q&5
8e4Bg4
SfcJBxB
10 Qxfi Nfd7
UBeSCa
12Rfdl Nc6
13 dxc5Nxc5

14 Racl Bxc3!?

15 Rxc3 Qxa2

16 Qe2 Na4

17 Rc2 Nb4
ISRctC Rac9
19 e5!Nb6
ZOBxbtt axb6

21 exd6 exd6

22 R*d6 Rxc4

23 RdB Ncfi

24 BxcG Rxc6
25RxfS+ KxfB
26 Qe5 1-0

Sartre, philosopher and writer,
1980: Tommy Cooper comedian.
1984. On this day: Dr Samuel
Johnson published his Dictio-
nary, 1755; the White Star liner
Titanic sank on her maiden
voyage after colliding with an
an iceberg, and 1513 lives were
lost, 1912; 95 Liverpool football
fans were crushed to death in
the stand at Hillsborough Stadi-
um, Sheffield, 1989. Today is the
Fteast Day of Saints Anastasia
and Basilissa. St Hunna or
Huva, St Patem or Pa darn of
Wales and St Ruadhan,

Lectures

National Gallery: Norman
C-oady, “Court Painters (tic

Mantegna and the Gonzaga
Court", lpm.

Victoria and Albeit Museum:
Francis Pugh, “Photography
and Graphic Design in the 20th
Century , 2pm.

Tate Gallery: Renate Dohmen,
“How American is American
Art?". lpm.

National Portrait Gallery:
Clare Gitiings, “Love and Death
at the Court of Charles I: Sir
Kenelm and Lady Venetia
Digby". 1.10pm.

Wallace Collection, London
Wl: Peter Hughes, “Furniture
by Cressea t and Gaudreaus”,
lpm.

Royal

Engagements

The Prince of Wales visits Dude High
School Manchester, and, as Patron,
the Manchester Grammar School
{foundation Bursary Appeal visits the
SehooL The Princess Royal presents
a traditional horseshoe, requested or
Peers of the Realm, to the Lord of the
Manor aL Oakham Castle. Oakham
Rutland, opens the Rutland Iforoijy
Support Centre at the Parks School
Oakham; opens Voluntary Action Rut-
land's Volunteer Centre al Barleythor-
pe Road. Oakham: visits Rutland'
Electric Fencing in its SUt anniver-
sary year, at 25 Fillings Road. Oakham;
as Patron. Royal College of Paediatrics
and Child Health, attends their Spring
Meeting at York University, and, as

Patron, the Development Triist (lor the
Menially Handicapped), attends a din-
ner at i r Hill Street, London Wi. The
Duchess or Gloucester attends a
Service or Thanksgiving to celebrate
the Centenary ol the League 0 ! St

Bartholomew’s .Nurses in the Church
or St Bartholomew -the-GreaL London
ECl. Princess Alexandra attends the
2Mh Reunion Dinner of the Victoria
Cross and George Crass Association at
the Headquarters of the Honourable
Artillery Company. .Armoury House.
Loudon ECl.

Changing of the Guard

The Household Cavalry Mounted Regi-
ment mounts the Queen's Life Guard
at Horse Guards, 1 lam; Jamaican
Defence Ftarec mounts the Queen's
Guard, at Buckingham Palace.

1 1 JOam. band provided by the Welsh
Guards.

No jurisdiction to
reconsider delay

POKER

David

YOU THOUGHT Holdem was a
simple game, didn't you? Just
two cards in the hole and five
in common on the flop. Could
hardly be easier, could it?

But just how subtle it can be
is shown by an example in
the March-April issue of Poker
Digest ihttp://www.poker
digest.com). Mason Malmuth
analyses a typical hand in the
Las Vegas limit-raise game.

You are two off the button,
two players have limped in
and you hold K T 4T.

Malmuth comments that in
most cases this hand should be
thrown away, but it is right to
play under one circumstance:
when the rest of the players,
including the blinds, are. loose
and passive. But this point
alone does not make the situ-
ation worthwhile. You must be
able to play the hand well.

Suppose the flop comes
down KO 9^ 5>. The two
players in the blinds pass. The
next player bets, the player
on your immediate right folds.
What should you do?

Let's assume the analysis is
favourable. If so, Malmuth
says, you should raise and

Spanier

hope for the best. Part of the
reason is, you think you may
have the best hand; you also
don't want to give someone
with middle or bottom pair, or
a gut-shot to a straight correct
odds to call behind you.

One of the players after you
cold-calls. The original bettor
calls. Everyone else folds.
Next card off is 2 ♦.

The original bettor now
checks to you. What do you do?

Despite the problems, your
play is to bet. You just can't
give a free card in this spot. If
you get raised (by either play-
er) you will have to consider
laying down your hand.

Both players call. Last card
is J ♦ . The first player checks
to you. What should you do?

You should also check, says
Malmuth. The reason is not
that your hand may not be
best but that it will be difficult
for a weaker hand to call. If
someone else bets you should
probably call unless you are
sure this player rarely bluffs.

Malmuth s real point is that
if you want to be successful
you need to do this type of
analysis all the time.

WHEN AN application for
leave to move for judicial
review was granted despite
having being made outside
the time period provided for
in Order 53 rule 4 of the
Rules of the Supreme Court,
there was no jurisdiction to
reconsider the question of
extension of time on the
hearing of the substantive
application.

The House of Lords allowed
the applicant's appeal against
the decision of the Court of
Appeal which had upheld
Popple well J's decision to
reconsider, on the substantive
bearing of her application for
judicial review, the question of
delay in making that application.

The applicant had applied
to the Criminal Injuries Com-
pensation Board on 20 No-
vember 1991 for compensation
claiming that, in the course of
a burglaiy at her bouse, she had
been assaulted, raped and
buggered That application was
refused orally and the refusal
was confirmed by letter on 9
December 1993.

On 14 February 1994 Cam-
wath J granted her leave to
move for judicial review of the
decision, apparently intending
to extend the period within
which the application should be
made pursuant to RSC Order
53 rule 4, ie “promptly and in
any event within three months
from the date when grounds for
the application first arose".

On the substantive hearing,
Popplewell J rejected the
Board's contention that the
delay had caused hardship,
prejudice or detriment to good
administration, but ruled that
he was entitled to reconsider
the question of delay on the
basis that no good reason had
been shown for extending the

the other night at the
Lincoln Center, the New
York Philharmonic played
Mahler’s Fourth, but
Michael Steinberg’s pro-
gramme note nagged. He
said of the Fburth’s early re-
ception: “The very qualities
that Mahler had banked
on were the ones that an-
noyed The bells, real and
imitated (in flutes), with

THURSDAY

Law Report

15 APRIL 1999

Regina v Criminal
Injuries Compensation
Board, ex parte A

House of Lords (Lord
Slynn of Hadley, Lord
Mackay of C lashfem,
Lord Nolan, Lord
Clyde, Lord Hobhouse
of Woodborough)

25 March 1999

period, and to refuse to extend
time, treating the grant of leave
in effect as a conditional leave.
Nicholas Blake QC and Eliza-
beth Woodcraft iMiUer Parris)
for the applicant; Michael
Kent QC (Treasury Solicitor! for
the Board.

Lord Slynn said that three
questions arose on the appeal
whether the application for ju-
dicial review should have been
allowed to proceed so long out
of time; whether there were
grounds for setting aside the
decision of the Board; and
whether it was now right to set
aside the decision and to send
itbackforffirtberconsderation.

Pursuant to RSC Order 53
rule 4 and section 31(7) of the
Supreme Court Act 1981, even
if an application for leave to
move for judicial review was not
made promptly the court might
extend the period if it found
good reason for doing so.

However; the court might
refuse leave or the relief
sought if in its opinion to
grant relief would be likely to
cause hardship or prejudice

Words

CHRISTOPHER

Hawtree

chawbacon, n.

which the music begins!
And that chawbacon tune in
the violins!”

Chaw; an apparent meld-
ing of jaw and chew dates

or would be detrimental to
good administration.

In the present case, it had
not been necessary for Fop-
plewell J to consider whether
good reason for an extension of
time had been shown on the
facts, since that issue had been
concluded by Carnwath J.
Accordingly, Ex parte Worth
[1985] STC 564 should be
overruled, and Popplewell J
had not had jurisdication to
reconsider the question of an
extension of time.

It was plain that the Board
had been led to proceed on ev-
idence which was wrong and
that they had not had the true
facts, because a police officer
had given inaccurate evidence
about a medical examination
undergone by the applicant
and the police doctor's report
had not been before the Board.

The police had a special
position In cases such as the
present and should have made
inquiries as to the existence
of the report. In those circum-
stances, although there was
no suggestion that the inaccu-
racy of the officer’s evidence
had been either deliberate
or fraudulent, there had been
a breach of natural justice
and the proceedings had
been unfair.

Although there obvious dif-
ficulties in re-opening the
matter; the only new evidence
was documentaiy and it would
be possible for the Board to
consider whether the doctor's
evidence changed the picture in
the applicant's favour. Accord-
ingly, since a breach of natur-
al justice had been established,
the decision would be quashed
and the decision remitted to the
Board for reconsideration.

Kate O'Hanlon
B arrister

from tiie 16th century, its
farther linking, with bacon,
came at the start of the
19th, to mean a bumpkin (no
beef for them); meanwhile,
bacon alone meant as much
all along, as in EaktafTsery,
"On, bacons, on!”

As for Mahler, check out
Uri Caine’s recent disc of
diverse jazz versions: no
(rfiawbocon, he.

acader
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institm
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enable
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8/FEATURES

the THURSDAY REVIEW

1 independent 15 April 1995

I’m in love with my ex-husDana

Alex is in love again with the man she divorced 15 years ago for being hyper-critical, controlling and beUttlh^. ^r^ voun g
But he’s had a heart attack and says, ‘gently’, that he can’t have sex, which is very important to Alex. Sho s e .

VIRGINIA’S ADVICE

Dilemmas

READERS’ SUGGESTIONS

F unny. When I read

this rtilprrrma T get

the same sensa-
tion as I get when
watching a film
where people are
chatting happily
in a room and suddenly the cam-
era pans to the doorknob which,
ever so slightly, starts to him -
accompanied by a frightful
screeching of violins. Things, in
fact, are not as they seem.

This toy-boy stuff is a total red
herring. Poor old Alex is being led
down a dreadfully familiar garden
path. Fifteen or so years ago she
fell in love with her husband
Then he slowly turned into one
of those horribly critical and
controlling characters that she
couldn't stand so she divorced
him. Now, with all the ghastly
memories erased from her mind
she's met him again. She's fall-
en in love with him again. And I
wouldn't be remotely surprised
it in rather less than 15 years, she
divorces him again. Why? Be-
cause I can already sense that
he's on the controlling tack.

He must know how much sex
means to her, and he's already
punishing her; perhaps for dump-
ing him in the first place, by say-
ing that her favourite activity is
out of bounds. He's not saying it

with any wringing of hands. He

doesn’t say that it’s awful and that

he'll do his very best to find help
that might make him able to have
sex. He doesn’t say that though
he can't have sex hell do any-
tiling in his power to help her
reach sexual satisfaction some
other way. No, he tells her
“gently". iScreeching violins
again.) And certainly he doesn't
tell her the truth, and that is that
apart from a few exceptional cir-
cumstances, which would prob-
ably mean he was pretty much of
an invalid - which Alex hasn't
mentioned - there's no reason
why he shouldn't have sex after
a heart attack, anyway.

No, that's one of those bits of
folklore that seems to have hung
on, like the one that says mumps
makes you sterile fit can, but it's
pretty unlikely!.

According to an excellent lit-
tle leaflet on sex and heart at-
tacks published by the British
Heart foundation, in general if
someone can walk 300 yards on
the level comfortably or climb two
flights of stairs briskly without
getting chest pain or puffing,
sex is on. (Since I can’t walk up
two flights of stairs without drag-
ging myself along by the banis-
ters, I'm starting to worry about
sex myself, but that's another

story.) if he finds he gets angina
after sex, there's medication he
can take. If be’s impotent, it
could be due to his medication.
But most men who go off sex
after heart attacks are usually
suffering from simple anxiety,
or they've never been told that
it's OK.

Maybe in Spain the advice
Alex's ex has been given is dif-
ferent, but that’s the view from
here. So I'm not even going to
answer Alex's question about
toy-boys, which sounds an ex-
tremely dangerous idea. If her ex
really can't have a sex life him-
self, there are masses of ways he
could give her a good sex life if
he wanted. And if he can, which
is what I suspect then why is he
holding back except because the
old controller in him has been
roused, and this is just the be
ginning of a re-run of the old
movie in a Spanish setting?

Alex should be on
guard And before she
packs up all her furn-
iture and trundles off
to Heathrow, she
should at least re-
read her old diaries, if
she kept them. Some-
times it's salutary to re-
member the bad times
as well as the good

WITH VIRGINIA IRONSIDE

Sacrifices will be needed
Alex must ask her ex-husband if
“not having sex” means he
doesn't want to share a bed and
enjoy cuddles and mutual stim-
ulation. Around the time of our
ruby wedding we abandoned
penetrative sex but still both
enjoy orgasms - not always on
the same occasion - and the
thrill of pleasuring each other
But if he is worried that sex-
ual activity will affect his heart,
Alex must accept that his health
concerns are likely to invade
other areas of life; that she will
have to make sacrifices, and
that feelings of inadequacy in 2
formerly dominating man may
mg bp Him difficult to live with.

A “younger lover" would
not help the situation.
“DARBY AND JOAN”
Surrey

bade, there may be an dement
of revenge for the way he treat-
ed you when you were manred.

If you are In love with him in any
real and lasting sense, you would

relinquish the idea erf a sexual re-
lationship and not embark upon
a deceitful and, to the potential
younger lover possibly ex-
ploitative, affair.

MS HEIDI GJERTSEN
Cambridge

A toy-boy is a bad idea
What was Alex's sexual rela-

tionship with her former hus-
band like before they diroroed?
And why does she' think he
would not belittle her now? >;•'

But there must be some as-
pects of his character that'are
stffl attractive. People are rarely
entirely incompatible; Alex is
sens ible and honest to ac-
knowledge his good points.

Sex with another outside a rer
lationship is a minefield. Most,
people want their sex with the.
person they love and live with.
NAME WITHHELD

NEXT WEEK'S DILEMMA

Are you bent on revenge?
First, you should resist
being fooled into thinking
that your husband’s per-
sonality has been trans-
formed by his heart attack -
he is still the same man whom
you divorced for belittling you.

You would be wise to examine
your motivation in renewing the
relationship. In doing so, then
taking a younger lover behind his

Dear Virginia,

My dear loife died last year
and Tm beginning to get
over the shock. She'd begun
to accept my transvestism ;
we spent some evenings
both dressed “en femme"
and she let me wear a
nightie in bed. Now J can
dress as much as / want to,
and all the time under my
male garb, but its so lonely.
I can't give it up. I've tried
throwing out my wardrobe,
but a month later JH buy a
new set How do I meet a
lady who will accept me?

And how do I broach the
subject? I cant bear to
resign myself to being a
solitary, sad transvestite.
Yours sincerely, Paul

Anyone with advice quoted : :
idUI be sent a bouquetfrom ,
Imcrflora Send letters and
dilemmas to Virginia
Ironside, ‘The Independent,

1 Canada Square, Canary
Wharf, London E14 5DL,ftix
0171-293 2182; e-mail
dilemmas^independentco.
uk, giving a postal address
fbrabouquet

As the judge said to Dr Death

POETIC LICENCE

‘No one, sir, is above the law’

MOWING A LAWN

By Martin Newell

ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL HEATH

Jack Kevorkian has been jailed for more than 10 years. But for the euthanasia
campaigner this was not bad news - it was an ambition fulfilled. By Mary Dejevsky

J ack Kevorkian has
been trying to have
himself jailed - jailed
or vindicated - for the
best part of a decade.
Now be is finally behind bars,
sentenced this week to a min-
imum of 10 years for the mur-
der of a terminally ill man who
pleaded to be put out of his mis-
ery. “No one, sic" the judge told
him firmly but gently, “is above
the law."

Jack Kevorkian, who has
made the “right to die" his
personal crusade, smiled
through Judge Jessica Coop-
er's sentencing. He smiled
when she refused bail smiled
when she said that any appeal
would be publicly funded, and
smiled when the handcuffs
were snapped on to his wrists
and he was led away.

It had been a bizarre
encounter: the middle-aged
woman judge, the white-haired
and frail-looking former pathol-
ogist, and the jury of 12 men and
women who had been called
upon to decide whether he was

a saviour or a criminal. Their
verdict and Judge Cooper's
sentence, turned on a grainy
amateur video, recorded by
the doctor- whether in his own
defence, or in the manner of an
advert for his professional ser-
vices, was never clarified

The slightly blurred figure in
the video looked younger by for
than his 52 years, and strangely
guileless. The hair and beard
were brown with, so far as you
could ted not a streak of grey;
the features seemed those of a
man in his early forties. But
there was no mistaking that he
was desperately ILL His facial
expression was dull and his
sunken eyes darted anxiously.
His head lolled back
periodically on his neck. He
could hardly lift his arms.

“Have you thought hard
about it?" asks a disembodied
voice, quite gently.

“Yes, I have," says the man,
his words more like rumbles,
and barely intelligible.

He is sitting in a wheelchair
behind what looks like an ordi-

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nary home table. He is wearing
green, striped pyjamas, or per-
haps it is ajazxy shirt

“It is the loss of your arms
that realty bothers you,” says
the voice again, with a slightly
rising inflexion that expects
an answer: But the moment has
passed. The man cannot hold
up his head long enough to
answer He is shown a picture
of himself in a car - the sort of
car that until three years be-
fore, he had been racing.

“1 want to make sure you un-
derstand this statement"
cajoles the voice, then reads: “L
Thomas Youk, the undersigned,
entirety voluntarily, and without
any reservation. .. without any
asternal pressure, persuasion
and duress... hereby consent to
the following procedures..."
The doctor; who is the owner of
the voice, runs thro ugh, a little
like a revision teacher; the sub-
stances and injections that will
lead to “certain death"

As vigorously as he can. the
patient nods and mouths “Yfes".

The doctor briskly clarifies
that Youk does not want to
donate his organs. Anothernod
and ‘Yes". Then Youk slowly
lifts one arm on to the table and
signs his name.

The video had shocked
America when it was shown in
edited form on television last
November. But what was
shown in the Michigan court-
room three weeks ago was the
unexpurgated version.

Jack Kevorkian, the 70-year-
old retired pathologist known
across the continent as “Doc-
tor Death", was charged with
intentionally killing Thomas
Youk. But the national show-
down over the legality and
ethics of euthanasia that he had
Sought for so long did not turn
out that way. The county
assistant prosecutor, John
Skrzynski, saw the death of 56-
year-old Youk as a straight-up
-and-down murder case, and
the judge agreed.

In court, as outside it, the
doctor presented an ambiguous
figure. Though he looked frail
he spoke firmly, phrasing his
sentences dearly and almost
elegantly. He could have been
almost any pensioner from the
professional classes. .Yet there
was something sinister; even
ghoulish, about him. His large
ears are pointed, like those of
a fantasy extraterrestrial his
gaze seems to pierce; his voice,
while assured, sounds eerie.

For Jack Kevorkian, the trial
was the culmination of a cru-

Good news for reluctant gardeners:
mowing the lawn is bad for the planet - the
US government says so. Scientists from the
University of Colorado believe that large
amounts of pollutants such as methanol,
butane and acetaldehyde released by
“wounded” grass help to create smog.

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Around the lawn you meant to mow
It pains you to discover
That all in aU, there must be
Fifty ways to heave your hover
Across the tufts of couch grass
The coarse stuff which prevailed
Where the tennis lawn you hoped for
Has most manifestly failed.

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sade that he had waged for a
decade and led him. by his own
acknowledgement to help 133
people to die. Or to mi them, de-
pending on your point of view.

He started in 1990. touting for
people - in the words of his ad-
vert - “oppressed by fatal dis-
ease, a severe handicap, a
crippling deformity... Show
him proper; compelling medical
evidence that you should die,
and Dr Jack Kevorkian will
help you kill yourself free of
charge". His first known victim,
or beneficiary - depending on
your viewpoint - was 54-year-
old Janet Adkins that same
yean A murder charge Mowed,
but was dropped, though his
doctor’s licence was suspended
the next year.

Last month's trial in Pontiac
was the fifth time he had been
brought to book for helping
people to commit suicide - a
crime in Michigan as in every
state except (since a referen-
dum last year) Oregon. He was
acquitted three times; the
fourth was declared a mistrial
In the latest trial Kevorkian
was up for murder. Youk, who
suffered from the musde- wast-
ing Lou Gehrig’s disease, was
too incapacitated to kill himself;
the doctor applied the needle.

That was what clinched the
verdict That, and the doctor’s
boundless quest for publicity.
He passed the video to CBS
television's flagship documen-
tary programme, 60 Minutes ,
which incorporated it into a
broadcast programme about
the doctor last November. In
doing so. Jack Kevorkian had
made what might have re-
mained private, public, and
forced the authorities' hand

“We believe," said the doc-
tor's lawyer-turned-adviser,
David Gorosh, at the start of the
trial, “that the jurors will
understand the difference
between murder and an act of
compassion, mercy." They did
and they didn't: they convicted
him of murder in the second
degree. Not premeditated
killing, but killing none the less.

They rejected the absolutist
rhetoric of the prosecutor; who
had spoken of the doctor com-
ing to Ybuk’s home “like a med-
ical hitman in the night with a
bag of poison to do his job". But
they accepted his main argu-
ment that “This case is not
about the right to die; this case
is about Jack Kevorkian's right
to bill". And neither Kevorkian’s
defence - that he was acting as
a physician and out of the best

interests of his patient - nor the
appeals of the victim’s family,
had any effect By the time of
sentencing, it was not a ques-
tion of whether he would go to
prison, but for how long.

In her statement - as firm
and gentle as her conduct of the
trial - Judge Cooper was philo-
sophically uncompromising.
“You had the audacity to go on
national television, show the
world what you did and dare the
legal system to stop you. W?H
sir, consider yourself stopped"
But legally she showed some
indulgence, inviting him to
lodge an appeal and stressing
his entitlement to legal aid.

That virtually ensures tha t
Kevorkian will fight another
day. When he first faced the
prospect of prison, he threat-
ened to starve himself to death.

Now, he has let it be known he
wants to exhaust the appeals
process first Of his 10-year
sentence, he can hardly say he
was not warned. At the start of
the trial. Judge Cooper en-
quired solicitously whether he
understood that if convicted, he
could spend the rest of his life
in prison. Assuring hec in his
characteristically sardonic
style, that he did, he quipped:
“There’s not much of it left”

A standard sight in April
Man and mower fight for breath
On the choked and soaked sargasso
Which they know as “Atco death".

A buck, a cough, a rattle
Then a KLAK, a scream of pain.

Till loss of power... then nothing
Mean it's a spanner-time again.

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And all this time you wonder
Why you didn't try at least
To get stuck into it earlier
But the wind was in the east
It was Sunday, there was football
And a film you couldn’t miss
It could wait another fortnight
But then Easter. And now this.

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The ranunculae, the dandelions
The plantain and the dock
Wffl collude with ryes and fescues
As you realise to your shock
That a lawn is made of many things
And most of them can grow
Fbr a thirty-three-week season
At an inch a day or so.

The Law page will appear next Tuesday

You can’t afford a gardener
And tethered sheep won’t do
Since the onus for the clipping
And the dipping fails on you
Which is where we have to leave you
Crouched and cursing at your mower
Deep in Philips’ screws and spanners
As the blades refuse to lower.

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I first met Brendan Croker three
years ago, on a mutual friend's
stag night in a small town just
outside Mexico City. The latter
stages of the evening have
mercifully passed into oblivion,
though I do remember him steer-
ing the groom’s father - an OAP with an
artificial leg, who had never previously trav-
elled outside the UK - into a vile-looking
cantina, with the words: “Did you ever have
cocaine, Harry, when you were in the
Army?"

Once inside the bar, whose facilities
included urinals that had been installed but
never plumbed in, our party's arrival ex-
cited a lively response from the regulars,
who engaged us in friendly conversation
for a couple of hours. Then - influenced,
perhaps, by the torrent of Victoria beer and
mescal - the atmosphere took on a char-
acter of mounting hostility, which became
unmistakable even to the more exhilarat-
ed foreign visitor when our one fluent Span-
ish speaker began to interpret phrases
such as “knife fight".

At the height of our unease a guitar
appeared in the way that they do - seem-
ingly by magic - in Elvis Presley musicals.
Croker picked it up and sang them Hank
Williams's "Your Cheatin' Heart". It was a
high-risk strategy, but within the first few
bars of the song - which he followed with
the Jim Reeves number “Hell Have to Go"
- 1 could sense a second volte-face by our
fellow-drinkers, this time from psychotic
loathing to a kind of transfixed awe. We then
left immediately, our would-be assassins’
leader discreetly pressing an unsolicited
packet of hashish into the singer's hand on
the way out

“Tm really glad we went in there,"
Croker told me, out in the street "Mexico
- what a fine country What a busy people.”

First impressions can be misleading, of
course, but the incident illustrates a num-
ber of Brendan Croker's qualities, not least
his convivial nature, his fondness for ad-
venture, and the emotional power of a
singing voice that has an affecting combin-
ation of roughness and sensitivity.

The term “maverick” might have been
invented for Croker. Over the past 15
years, he has produced a number of
breathtaking rhythm and blues and
Country-influenced recordings, and. is
admired by such figures as Eric Clapton,
John Mayall, and his frequent collabora-
tor Mark Knopfler

“He is a world-class songwriter," says
his long-term ally Andy Kershaw, “and a
tremendous singer. I have always thought
of him as a British Ry Cooder. He has one
of those rare voices that sound almost
black If Brendan Croker had surfaced in
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in 1969, instead
of Yorkshire in 1979. he’d have made a big-
ger impact than he has."

“The thing I like about the band.' says Brendan Croker. "is that it isn’t overburdened with ambition'

I met up with Croker again earlier this
week in the bar area of a Pizza Express in
central London. The arrival of the 45-year-
old, with shaven head, diamond ear-studs
and tattooed forearms, seemed to inspire
- as it usually does - a certain foreboding
among our fellow customers.

He had come to talk about Dying To
Sing, his week-long series of concerts at
the Twelve Bar Club. Tottenham Court
Road, dedicated to the work of dead pop
artists. But Croken who is unintezviewable
in any normal sense and appears bored by
talking about his own work, was soon rem-
iniscing about the problems currently be-
setting an impoverished earlwho.be says,
accompanies him on woodpigeon shoots at
home in Yorkshire.

“As I told him," Croker boomed at one
point, “what do you expect if you turn up
outside the door of every woman's door on
your estate, demanding droit de seigneur?”

The TWelve Bar project - at which
Crokei; with a varied supporting cast of
musicians, will perform the work of dead
stars including Kurt Cobain. Bob Marley
and Vivian Stanshall - is a typically
idiosyncratic scheme.

It started from a conversation about the
Little Fteat singer Lowell George," he told
me. “One of my friends said: ‘My God, don’t
you miss him, as a songwriter.' Then we
got talking about Rick Nelson."

Nelson, Croker recalled, blew his own
plane up, reportedly because he insisted
on freebasing cocaine while the plane
was landing.

Tm fascinated by these people," he said
“as they made other people’s lives better,
often at the expense of their own.”

Brendan Croker himself has made
several magnificent records - notably
Boat Trips in the Bay in the late Eighties,
and the splendidly titled Redneck State of

the Art in 1995. Shortly before that, he wrote
What It Hikes for the American country
star Wynona Judd: it sold 4 million copies
and earned Croker more than £100,000.
Then, just as he had established himself
as a Nashville songwriter, collaborating
with the legendary Chet Atkins, he ap-
parently lost interest, and set off on an
acoustic tour of Belgian prisons. It was a
typical career move for the singer who has,
I suggested, frustrated many supporters
with his perverse indifference to success.

“Well Tm sony I’ve been a disappoint-
ment to you William," sneered Croker. "I
do believe I've had the potential to make
big-selling records, but nobody's really
known quite what to do with them.”

Brendan Croker, who was born in
Bradford and studied at the local college
of art, was 30 when he started recording
seriously. Before that, he had something
of a chequered CV

Neville Elder

“I had jobs -I was a bin man and a rail-
way guani," he said, "but I generally got
fired for enjoying myself. Yorkshire Elec-
tricity Board - that was a good sacking."

He was painting scenery at Leeds Play-
house when he fell in with the virtuoso
blues guitarist Steve Phillips, who taught
both Croker and Mark Knopfler, and still
performs with their occasional group, the
Notting Hillbillies.

“One of the things I like about the band,"
said Croker, “is the way that it isn't over-
burdened with ambition. One of my
favourite songs is the single by Johnny Pay-
check “Take This Job and Shove it: I Ain't
Working Here No More".

What about his retreat from Nashville,
just as things were taking off?

“I loved the Innocence of the place at
first" he said.

“Before it all turned into a cynical big
business. 1 don't like what they are doing

now. musically or socially, so I don’t go

there.” Boredom, says Brendan Croker’s
associate Paul Crockford (“manager", in
relation to Croker, is probably not a
meaningful term 1 * is a recurring problem.

“He gets tired of things," Crockford said
“He has always adhered to the principle
of ‘don't do what you can do, do what you
can'?, and that's why he's so interesting.
If he were richer," Crockford added, “he'd
be eccentric, but he’s poor, so he’s mad."

Croker's live shows are always com-
pelling, if only for his fondness for involv-
ing the audience - often with terrifying
prominence - and his refreshingly unpre-
tentious philosophy. Last yean at a Notting
Hillbillies concert at Ronnie Scott’s, Mark
Knopfler; looking slightly out of place
among his old Leeds pals in a hand-
stitebed grey silk shirt, introduced a num-
ber as: “One of my songs that just about
everybody's recorded."

“OK," said a gruffVorkshire voice at his
elbow, “who’s done it then? Dame Thora
Hird? Archbishop Tutu?"

On stage or not, Croker is a man who
knows no sense of shame.

“One of the worst moments of my life."
says the journalist Mark Ellen, “was with
Brendan Croker in a London pub, packed
with city traders in red braces. He had a
guitar case with him, and he said: ‘What's
your favourite Woody Guthrie song?' I told
him ‘Grand Coolie Dam'. He got to his feet,
shushed these hundred bankers to silence,
turned to me and bellowed: ‘Sing it man.
Sing it now.’"

The stage backdrop at the Twelve Bar
Club, Croker told me. will consist of Jon
Langford’s portrait of Hank Williams,
pierced with arrows, in the pose of the mar-
tyred Saint Sebastian.

“I do slightly regret, "said Croker. “that
I can’t do the odd song by people who are
still alive. I don't wish any ill on anybody,"
he added “That said, I am aware that a
rock star's life is an uncertain business, and
pavements can be slippy when wet Late-
comers will not be ruled out"

In the few months, Croker's entire
back catalogue will be reissued together
with a “best of" compilation. Was he
planning a new album, given that his last
CD, Three Chord Love Songs , came out a
couple of years ago?

Tve started to feel I’ve made too many
records," he told ma “The next one I make.
I want to die for every line I write."

His immediate plans after the London
shows, he told me, are to spend some time
in Leeds looking after his two carthorses.

“I think I like carthorses," he said
"because they don't do anything they don’t
want to do. That," Croker added “is a good
example for anyone."

Brendan Croker is pLaying die Twelve Bar
Club, London. Booking: 0171-323 3003

Sweetness but too much lightness

DESPITE THE fact that it
flopped at its 1956 premiere, in
the history of musicals there
has scarcely been a bolder;
wittier or more majestically op-
. eratic score than Leonard
Bernstein's for his unwieldy
Candida

For that reason alone,
everyone from Lillian Heil-
man to John Wells and
Jonathan Miller by way of
Dorothy Parker and Stephen
Sondheim 'and plenty more)
has tried to turn this extrava-
gant but famously intractable
musical dramatisation of
Voltaire into viable theatre.

A significant body of opinion
believes that the show is best
realised on disc.

Thus we can only applaud
the spirit of endeavour behind
the decision to try to come up
with a new theatrical solution
to the problem in the shape of
yet another version, this time
for the National Theatre, with
T a “new" book, written and dir-
ected by John Caird, assisted
by Trevor Nutul

Bernstein recorded his
score with a heavy-duty oper-
atic cast and the London Syra-

MUSICAL

CANDIDE

OLIVIER

NATIONAL THEATRE

LONDON

phony Orchestra, so when the
National's thin-sounding 14-
piece band strikes up the fam-
ous overture your spirits sink.
Musically, matters improve
significantly but even at the
start there’s a bonus in the
dominating presence of Simon
Russell Beale as the narrator,
\fattaire. Caught in the spotlight
in the centre of the vast, bare
Olivier stage, he beadily eye-
balls the entire audience with
invincible imperiousness.

Voltaire now has a larger
slice of the action, guiding you
through Cantfide’s labyrinthine
physical and philosophical
journey from naive optimism to
true pnlightenman t, and when-
ever Russell Beale is in charge
you feel unusualty connected to
the action. But even the
strength of this new thread
cannot bind the show together
into a satisfying whole.

John Napier's spare de-

signs - little more than a cun-
ningly deployed set of packing
cases - throw the focus on to
the actors. The National’s en-
semble company uses Nicholas
Nickleby - style storytelling
techniques to whip up different
atmospheres in locations
across Europe, from drowning
at sea to a grand ball in Venice,
with gusts of smoke to en-
hance Paul Pyant’s fighting.

Beverley Hein brings the
house down as the 'll- used Old
Lady. She grabs her big scene
where she lists suffering every
indignity known to womankind
- she’s been left with one but-
tock (don’t askj - with tremen-
dously engaging zest, before
going one further by launching
into a splendidly assured and
terrifically funny rendition of “I
Am Easily Assimilated". Sim-
ilarly, Simon Day's ludicrously
tall and pompous Maximilian
seizes his comedy with deli-
cious aplomb.

Yet the musical and dra-
matic power of these perform-
ances - and that of Denis
Quilley as Martin, who refus-
es to bblieve in the goodness of
mankind - also hi ghli ghts the

Out of step: music and drama in ‘Candide’ rarely puli together Geraint Lewis

fundamental weakness. Not
for nothing is this known as
Bernstein's Candide. Good
acting is not enough. The over-
all feeling generated is that of
a very long story with an out-
standing, but separate, score.
The approach is typified by
Daniel Evans as a nicely boy-
ish Candide.

His sweet voice is simply too
tight to carry the emotional in-
tensity of the music. Similarly,

Peter Darling's choreography
is often imaginative out you
keep wishing it would lift the
temperature to another level to
drive the musical motor.

All the stops are pulled out
for the hair-raising choral fin-
ale. but by then it’s too late.
Caird's version is more faith-
ful to Voltaire's ideas and lias
impressive clarity, but the plod-
ding rhythm of his production
means that it foils to take fire

Ultimately, it’s caught between
stools. In terms of music and
its dramatic sincerity, Can-
dide is now a chamber piece.
But stranded in the Olivier
the drama deflates. It would
make for economic madness,
but I wonder what it would be
like in the Cottesloe?

David Benedict

In rep. National Theatre (0I7I-
452 3000 )

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THE FIRST couple of songs in
Damon Gough, aka Badly
Drawn Boy’s set were en-
dearingly inept Having decid-
ed to perform all the acoustic
tracks first he sat down with
: , his guitar and began a song to
,J *‘ which he couldn't remember
the words, inviting us to fill in
the gaps by posting lyrics to his
website. Finally, Gough was
forced to admit “I don’t know
how to finish this”, and came
to a stuttering halt He said be
couldn't remember the title of
the second song. No matter It
only lasted 20 seconds. “You

stHl here?” he asked cheerfully
after a shambolic third numb er.

If Gough’s musical perfor-
mance was uneven, he had
his between -songs banter off
pat He encouraged heckling
announcing: Tm a simple
man with simple needs and a
huge talent Now cheer up
and enjoy yourselves-"

Oddly enough, it was the
bumbling nature of Gough’s
live set that prompted an A&R
scramble and got him a deal
with XL records, home to the
Prodigy. Even James Lavelie,
the Mo Wax boss who prides

POP

BADLY DRAWN BOY

IMPROV THEATRE
LONDON

himself on being able to spot
new talent requisitioned
Gough for last year's Untie
project alongside Radiohead's
Thom Ybrke and The Verve’s
Richard Ashcroft. But Gough
has always been impervious to
the storm surrounding his tal-
ents. Badly Drawn Boy's
moniker may denote someone
a little rough around the edges.

but it scandalously understates
his chaotic nature.

There was a protracted
silence while Gough tried to fig-
ure out how to switch on his
keyboards.The audience, by-
now showing signs of rest-
lessness, chattered loudly
among themselves. “Stop that
noise," scolded Gough. Tve a
good mind to come over and
tan your arses." Another
silence followed as he franti-
cally searched for his set fist.

The idea that after all these
months. Gough still isn't fa-
miliar with his own material

doesn’t ring true. A likelier
story is that he is trading on the
caek-lianded credentials that
won him his deal in the first
place. This wasn't just anti-pop.
it was anti-performance. And
the joke was as much on us as
it was on his investors “Are you
going to laugh at everything I
say?" he inquired, to more
nervous titters.

Yes. it appeared, we were.

The show wasn't without
its magical moments. Gough's
lo-fi inventiveness came to the
fore as he performed songs
from his three EPs. Haphazard

tinkering on keyboards and
harmonica echoed the
sparkling kookiness of Money
Mark, though his maudlin
acoustic numbers revealed a
more melancholy side.

But, for some, the cata-
strophic nature of Gough’s set
proved too much. As the crowd
thinned, you realised that
though this performance was
unique, it showed scant regard
for paying punters. As a state-
ment it was one of the best
shows of theyear, but musically
it was by far the worst.

FIONA STURGES

T’ai chi and
dried rice

A THIN stream of rice cas-
cades continuously on to a
lone man and looks like a dry
variant of water torture. I wor-
ried that it might eventually
bore a hole in his shiny bald
head but he appears impervi-
ous, standing absolutely stifi for
80 minutes. He must be a Bud-
dhist monk, with his robes and
superhuman control. He gets
my vote as star number one in
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s
Songs of the Wanderers. And
star number two is the rice -
more than three tons of it,
cleaned, dried, dyed gold and
then dried again. During the
performance it is poured
scooped Sung, and shaped in
the hills and ridges of a deso-
late landscape.

Fburteen pilgrims, men and
women, are embarked on a
spiritual journey in which they
agonise and flagellate them-
selves horribly, so that the
monk’s immobile serenity
definitely appears as the goal
they need to attain. They are
prey to tumultuous distress,
causing one woman to con-
vulse on the ground and a man
to flail in a mound of rice - the
quagmire of his own misery. But
in between this hyperactivity
the movement is so slow it al-
most seems to float, figures ad-
vancing imperceptibly as if
frightened to disturb the sur-
rounding air

Call me suspicious, but the
slowness lends an air of im-
portance to what strikes me a s
a fairly basic premise and its
vapid repetitive elaboration.
The piece, which was made five
years ago, apparently takes in-
spiration from that boring cult
book of the Sixties, Herman
Hesse’s oriental homily, Sid-
dhartha, as weD as drawing on
religious thinkin g and prac-
tices of the East

The cast apparently use t’ai

dance

CLOUD GATE DANCE
THEATRE

SADLER'S WELLS
LONDON

chi and meditation as their
warm-up before going on stage.
Their choreographer and di-
rector. Lin Hwai-min, has a
broad background embracing
both American and oriental
dance. He founded the compa-
ny in 1973 as Taiwan's first
contemporary dance compa-
ny: but he gave it the name.
Cloud Gate, of a 5, 000-year-old
ritual dance.

In fact, any Western influ-
ence seems invisible in the
staging of this piece, except for
a sound accompaniment of
Georgian folk songs, elegiac
male solo voices backed by the

soft hum of a chorus. The visual
effects are undeniably stun-
ning. The dancers cany pil-
grim’s sticks and compose
group pictures as beautiful as
a Chinese scroll painting. The
careful lighting carves the
space with evocative dusks and
filtered rays; the procession of
hand-held flames is an effective
moment; the sudden th umping
deluges of rice had me almost
jumping out of my seat.

At curtain fall, it is unclear
whether pilgrims find peace.
But a resolution of sorts comes
afterwards, when the house
fights are up. A man with a hoe
spends 10 minutes rituatisticaily
raking a spiral pattern in the
rice, now covering the whole
stage surface. He is star num-
ber three of the evening. And if
you can sit and ignore the
chattering people around you,
you will perhaps achieve
the focused calm of the Bud-
dhist monk.

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to laugh

T he secret of Happi-
ness? It's that eveiy-
body’s got secrets.
Todd Solondz's as-
tonishing tragicom-
edy pokes around
various bedrooms
and hallways of New Jersey, listen-
ing in on the hilarious, heart-rend-
ing and occasionally horrifying
business that passes for suburban
private life.

The face which a Solondz char-
acter offers to the world usually gives
no indication of the turbulence with-
in. A man who boasts to a woman at
dinner that he's “champagne” the
actually uses the word) goes home
and kills himself A husband and fa-
ther of three turns out to be a child
molester. A computer analyst
spends nights making sweatily ob-
scene phone-calls. If New Jersey is
anything to go by, then Thoreau was
right: the mass of men really do lead
lives of quiet desperation.

Solondz investigated similar lev-
els of anxiety and alienation in his
1995 feature Welcome to the Doll-
house, a coming- of-age picture
which portrayed adolescence as a
more or less continual nightmare.

Happiness is a more ambitious
ensemble piece, at whose centre is
a trio of sisters. Joy Jordan (Jane
Adams) is a sensitive 30-year-old
struggling with her career and hop-
ing to break through as a Joni
Mitchell-type singer-songwriter. In
the meantime she teaches at a lan-
guage school and searches longingly
for a boyfriend. Helen (Lara Flynn

The Big Picture

ANTHONY QUINN

HAPPINESS (18)

DIRECTOR: TODD SOLONDZ
STARRING: JANE ADAMS.
CYNTHIA STEVENSON. LARA
FLYNN BOYLE. DYLAN BAKER
140 MINUTES

Boyle) is a vacuously beautiful
writer striving to hide her low self-
esteem (even though her literary
friends include a certain “Salman"
who rin g s from London.). Irish (Cyn-
thia Stevenson) is the perky house-
wife, and the most interesting of the
three because she has deluded
herself into happiness. Her way of
maintaining the illusion is to
patronise Joy. “Just because you've
hit 30 doesn’t mean you cant be fresh
any more," she tells her with poi-
sonous solicitude.

Orbiting this core is a host of char
acters whose perversions and neu-
roses hammer home the irony of the
film's title: these people aren't so
much in pursuit of happiness as in
terrified flight from loneliness. Take
the Jordan sisters' parents, Lenny

and Mona (Ben Gazzara and Louise
Lassen ; after 40 years together he
wants to separate, only he cant sum-
mon much enthusiasm for the
woman he's supposed to be leaving
her for. Convinced of his own bor-
ingness. Allen (Philip Seymour Hoff-
man) can only connect with the
beautiful woman down the hall by
telephone - anonymously, and with
his trousers unzipped. He in turn is
pestered by his needy neighbour
Kristina (Camryn Manheim), whose
idea of a chat-up line is to tell him
about the recent murder of their
doorman. If it weren't so tragic,
you'd double up laughing.

Solondz tends to work in duo-
logues, monitoring conversation for
its helpless pratfalls and unthinking
cruelties. It's the kind of deadpan
observation that Neil LaBute
attempted in Your Friends and
Neighbours, but that failed because
he fell in love with the sound of his
own cynicism. Solondz has a greater
range and a subtler discrimination,
and his characters, for all their
inadequacies, have the authentic
stamp of human beings.

This is most poignantly brought
to bear in his portrayal of Trish's hus-
band. Bill (Dylan Baker), an appar-
ently regular guy who dreams of
murder and contrives to rape his 11 -
year-old son’s sleepover friend.
Solondz is handling inflammatory
stuff here, but he never stoops to tit-
illation or pats himself on the back
for broaching a taboo subject.
Instead, he goes as for as he possi-
bfy can to humanize perversion:

Lara Flynn Boyle and Jane Adams: ‘Happiness’ would be scarcely walchable without the stupendous efforts of the cast

some of the film's most thoughtful
■and most excruciating) moments
occur between Bill and his son, who
is himself worried by his own
inchoate sexuality. The way in which
these scenes sway between ten-
derness and sick farce is charac-
teristic of Solondz's audacious
balancing act. He's a poet of
embarrassment

Sex is, of course, the animating
principle behind Happiness,
whether as personal therapy or
party spoiler It's a Fliry driving
these men and women to madness,
or despair, or both. In a typically hon-
est exchange, one character says:
“Women are pathetic gossips and
men are just...” “Pathetic?" sug-
gests her partner. On that touching
note of pillow talk they proceed to

make love. There is an almost Lariri-
nesque morbidity in the film's treat-
ment of sexual isolation. I kept
thinking of his lines from “Talking
in Bed": “It becomes still more dif-
ficult to find/ Words at once true and
kind/ Or not untrue and not unkind.”
It's certainly difficult for this lot
Even when somebody gets a break
here, you're braced for an unpleas-
ant pay-off - which duty arrives.

Indeed the film would be
scarcety watchable, let alone en-
joyable. without the stupendous ef-
forts of its cast Top of the heap for
bravery is Dylan Baker; who man-
ages something I never expected to
see in American cinema: the sym-
pathetic portrayal of a paedophile.
His straight-arrow. Kennedy-era
look serves to make him even more

disturbing. If this were any other
movie he’d walk off with it but
there’s an even better performance
by Philip Seymour Hoffman as the
piteous Alien. Hoffman has already
impressed as the gay gofer in Boo-
gie Nights and the obsequious as-
sistant of The Big Leboioslra; he even
escaped with dignity intact from the
uns peakable Patch Adams, and
that's quite something. Here, his
pudgy, furtive crank caller says
more about solitariness and sexu-
al failure than the last 10 years of
Woody Allen movies put together.
Just to watch him sucking Coke
through a straw as be listens to a
ghnniish confession of murder is a
pleasure unrivalled by any movie
this yean Hoffman is already a
great actor, so look out for him.

Look out also for terrific work by
Cynthia Stevenson (she played Tim
Robbins’ discarded giriftiend in The
Player), Louise Lassen Camryn
Manheim and Jared Harris. It’s
rare to have an ensemble as strong
as this, and rarer still for it to be
paired with a fine script. Even the-
Jordans.’ dog gets a stand-out scene
at the close.

Happiness isn’t an easy experi-
ence to digest It will disquiet and
affront and will probably cause ar-
guments between dose friends. But
anyone interested in a young talent
finding his voice and saying some-
thing real about social and sexual-
deviancy should go and see it

3b dd Solondz is interviewed on
pagel2

Also Showing

an ideal husband Oliver Rxrker (PG) ■ Return to Paradise Joseph Ruben (15) ■ Prometheus Tony Harrison (15) * Actresses Ventura pons (12)

OSCAR WILDE'S Lord Goring
strolls through the high society
of 1890s London with an air of
impeccable ennui and the finest
buttonhole in town, mocking the
stuffiness of his world, and his
own place within it He does
nothing - brilliantly. It's un-
derstandable, then, that direc-
tor Oliver Parker should make
Lord Goring the centre of his
film adaptation of An Ideal
Husband, and that Rupert
Everett should play him.

The film also has topicality
on its side, being the story of a
promising political career
threatened by sleaze. Sir
Robert Chiltern (Jeremy
Northam) is a rising star in Par-
liament with a reputation for
moral probity, which no one ad-
mires more keenly than his
beautiful wife Gertrude (Cate
Blanche tt ). Enter rapacious
blackmailer Mrs Cheveley
( Julianne Moore) with evidence
of a financial indiscretion in
Chiltem's past Her proposition
is simple: either he supports a

fraudulent canal project in the
House or else she will expose
his guilty past In desperation
Chiltern turns to the one man
who can outwit this ruthless
schemer. Lord Goring.

All this should be as com-
fortable as a favourite arm-
chair, yet I found myself
fi d g e tin g throughout Given that
an adapter has Wilde's own
lines to work from, it would
seem almost impossible to
make An Ideal Husband dull -
yet Oliver Parker has somehow
contrived to. While the play has
to be edited for screen purpos-
es, I was amazed and then irri-
tated by how much Parker had
changed, or merely ignored.
The showdown between Lord
Goring and Mrs Cheveley, for
example, which should be all
rapier thrusts and parries, is
slowed into a weedy romantic
duet What's more, the crucial
plot derice- a diamond bracelet
which allows Goring to check-
mate his opponent - has been
dropped altogether so that Mrs

Minnie Driver in ‘An Ideal Husband'

Cheveley, a study in conniving
malice, can be softened into a
playful adventuress.

The Wildean spark is also
painfully absent in most of the
performances. Everett passes
muster, even if he doesn't catch
the insouciance of “the idlest
man in London” - not quite
trivial enough, as Goring himself
might put it Julianne Moore
does little more than flash her
teeth, while Minnie Driver gives

an absurdly anachronistic per-
formance as Goring’s love
match. She could learn from the
composure of Cate Blanchett,
who makes something unex-
pectedly interesting of her ball-
breaker- in-crinoline role.

Fin-de-siecle London has
been lovingly recreated, natu-
rally, and the torrid crimsons
and card-room greens of the
decor look fantastic. But when
the furniture looks livelier than

the acting, you know a produc-
tion is in trouble.

Joseph Ruben has never re-
captured the shocking vitality
of his 1987 chiller The Stepfa-
ther, but he handles the ethical
drama of Return to Paradise
with journeyman competence.
Two years after a trio of Amer-
ican college boys partied
through a dope’n'sex holiday in
Malaysia, two of them - Sher-
iff (Vince Vaughn) and Tony
(David Conrad) - are sought out
in New York by elfin attorney
Beth (Anne Hedie). She has
news for them: their gentty
idealistic Mend Lewis (Joaquin
Phoenix) was arrested after
their departure for sole pos-
session of the drug stash all
three of them shared. Having
languished in prison ever since,
he's sentenced to be hanged at
the end of the week unless his
two friends return to Penang
and share out the six years' im-
prisonment. In a word, oo-er.

The film skilfully involves us
in this bowel-loosening dilemma

How noble would you be if sav-
ing a friend's life entailed three
years in a brutal foreign nick?
Just think of the food, the cold,
the squalor - and that’s before
you even start considering
all those missed episodes of
Fraazer. Vaughn and Heche
argue it out for over an hour per-
haps a bit much given that the
film already tips us the wink in
its title, but you stay with the
vacillations of the two pals none
the less. I guess the moral of the
story is don’t get caught with
hash in a country like Malaysia,
where even the “never inhaled”
plea foils on deaf ears.

Tony Harrison’s film poem
Prometheus is both an earnest
elegy to the Yorkshire miners
doomed during the Eighties,
and a broader reckoning on the
state of post-war Europe. It's
also, I'm afraid, a purgatorial
couple of hours. Based on the
Greek myth of the Titan who
stole fire from the gods, it fea-
tures a bizarre central perfor-
mance by Michael Feast, dad in

a tight silvery jumpsuit that’s
meant to be the costume of
Hermes but actualty makes him
look like one of The Glitter
Band. I was on the verge of leav-
ing several times, but something
about its total lack of cinemat-
ic art kept me pinned to my seat
Actresses is a pretty leaden
inquiry into stage acting. A
tyro drama student (Merce
Pons) researches the role of
Iphigeneia by interviewing
three grandes dames of the
Catalan theatre who all studied

under the late, great Empar
Rebira. Along the way we get .
interminable passages of rem-
iniscence and speculation
about the glorious gift of the::
stage - ironically the (me thing
that the film never actualty
provides is drama I dcaft know
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Mild at heart

Has the cliche come true again? Has age mellowed the sometime angry rebel
Nicolas Cage? Perhaps. But he’s still dangerous to interview. By Shane Danielsen

S o there’s Nicolas Cage.

With his sad eyes and his
sleepy demeanour and his
voice so even, so unmodu-
lated by excitement or sur-
prise, that it threatens at
times to edge into the sub-
liminal. Barely has the distance between
on-screen creation and off-screen reali-
ty seemed quite so pronounced.

“People tend to think Fm sad,” he
drawls. “Like I'm some kind of miserable
bastard - 1 guess because of the way my
face is, or the way I talk. But I’m not Fm
a happy guy. ReaDy.” He could almost be
reading a menu. Suddenly he frowns: “At
least until someone makes me unhappy.”

The interviewee suitably forewarned,
puts on a cheerful face.

He’s right though: there are two
Nicolas Cages. One is familiar enough -
the scenery-chewing, hyper-kinetic star
of Con Air and The Rode - and when he's
good, in this incarnation, he's little short
of phenomenal, one of die screen's great
larger-than-life characters.

Often, though, it's a question of di-
rection: teamed with John Woo for
FaceJOff, or with the Coen Brothers for
Raising Arizona, be achieved a kind of
vivid mania, became his own Tex Avery
cartoon. When he’s bad. however - the
first 15 minutes of Snake Eyes, for ex-
ample, or die long-forgotten Zandaiee -
he can be little short of unbearable.

And then there's his quieten more con-
templative side - the actor rather than
the performer. Occasionally this Nic
Cage finds his way on to the screen, and
he too can be either compelling or dis-
astrous. He managed to invest Leaving
Las Vegas with a tragic grandeur gave
the pop psychology of Birdy a heart; yet
in City qf Angels - that woolly-headed re-
make afWun Wenders' ravishing Wings
qf Desire - his supposed sensitivity came
off as mere solipsism; as an angel he
seemed more annoying than celestial
He delivers a similarly muffled per-
formance in Ms latest release, 8MM - in
which he plays a private detective .trying
to find the makers of a snuff movie. He is
a decent man drawn by small stages into
£3* grubby underworld of hard-core pom,
into his own eventual corruption.

It’s a strong premise, albeit reminiscent
of Paul Schrader’s Hardcore-, however:
given that its director; Joel Schumacher;
was responsible for the camp farrago that
was Batman & Robin, one cannot be
altogether surprised that 8MM is not a

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This is news to Cage, however; who
seems utterly sincere when he says: “I
think this movie, and Leaving Las Vegas,
were the two that have pushed me hard-
est that realty lock me to nay limits. 1 went
further this time, certainly in terms of the
violent aspect of ray personality, than I’ve

ever gone before."

Certainly it’s a project with which, at
some deep interior level he identifies. By
his own admission, he feels oddly pro-
tective of the film - nervous, almost that
it be properly understood A d amning Va-
riety review, published the day after its
premiere at the Berlin Film Festival so
incensed him that be cut short his visit
and returned to Los Angeles. Where, un-
fortunately, he was met by a string of
American critiques that made the trade
paper’s seem tame by comparison.

You think he’d be tougher-skinned. No

pens all the time, sure. But I doubt very
much that it’ll happen to me. I don’t think
anyone could look at 8MM, for example,
and suggest that I was making safer films.
1 mean, yes, I want the community to be
a safe place for my kids, and yes, 1 like
the idea of a cosy domestic life. All of that
is very appealing But that’s where it ends.
With my work, it’s going to be just as dan-
gerous and confronting as it ever was."

His role in 8MM is a complex one. At
times, his exact motivation is unclear, his
reasoning frequently seems suspect. As
such, it attests to his preference for
“characters that force me to really
deeply analyse various aspects of the
human psyche, both positive and nega-
tive”. A noble ambition. Yet so many of
his on-screen roles have involved ex-
treme characterisations that you have to
wonder: how will audiences respond to
this more interior Nicolas Cage?

‘People think I'm sad. But I’m not. I’m a happy
guy. At least , until someone makes me unhappy’

fragile newcomer; he started acting in his
late teens. By day he auditioned, read, lis-
tened compulsively to music; nights, he
worked serving popcorn at LA’s Fairfax
theatre. A nephew of Francis Fbrd Cop-
pola, he also changed his name, taking
his nom de travail from Marvel Comics
superhero Luke Cage, Power Man.

“1 was. without going into too mudb de-
tail a pretty wild guy. Angry, unfocused.
I had a lot of rebellious energy and I didn't
really have any idea where 1 was heading
in my life. All I knew was, that energy had
to go somewhere and. even though at the
time I was really heavily into punk rock.
I knew that I wanted it to go somewhere
productive, not destructive.”

Now 35. he admits to having mellowed
somewhat in recent years: “\feah, Hfs true.
At the risk of sounding tike a bore. I feel
pretty calm these days. I mean, Fm a fa-
ther now, I have a great relationship [with
Patricia Arquette, another of Hollywood’s
most affectless voices]. Generally speak-
ing, I enjoy my work. I no longer feel any
need to be destructive."

I suggest his new-found peace might
be simply part of getting older: just an-
other example ofa young firebrand mel-
lowing into comfortable middle age.
losing a tittle of their edge. Call it the
Robin William s syndrome.

At tins. Cage half-smiles. “That hap-

“Well that’s a good question. It's ac-
tually because for a long while I tras so
flamboyant, and 1 was acting in much
more of a grand style, that I became re-
ally intrigued by the possibility of ex-
pressing myself in this other, more
contained manner.'

He pauses, considering his words. “1
guess what I'm trying to say is I want to
do a little of everything, and experience
whatever range I have, rve done the larg-
er-than-life stuff Tve been there. And rve
set up this potential for risk, so hopeful-
ly people won’t be too alienated by what-
ever I choose to do next"

“Next", as it happens, is Bringing Out
the Dead, about an existential crisis
faced by a New York paramedic, which
he's just finished shooting for director
Martin Scorsese. He describes it as
being “a return to Taxi Driver territory,
what with Paul Schrader writing the
script and all”. That should be bleak. I say.
Cage looks unimpressed. “Whereas Taxi
Driver was about going into the darkness,
confronting your demons and losing
yourself in the process, this one is much
more about coming out into the light It’s
more a spiritual journey than anything."

After that he’s set to re-team with pro-
ducer Jerry Bruckheimer for yet anoth -
er action flick. Gone in 60 Seconds . a
remake of the 1973 smasb-’em-up about

a car thief with a penchant for destruc-
tion, once described in Time Out as “a
rousing exercise in auto-snuff”.

Somehow, though, it can’t help but
seem a cop-out It as he claims, the real
challenge now is to act, rather than to per-
form - to command a film, rather than sim-
ply to dominate it - then his decision to
make another mindless action flick
seems faintly perverse, a com- ^

prehensive waste of time and
talent Why bother?

The suggestion seems to
irritate him. He frowns, his Mapj i
stare narrowing. “Look.”
he says slowly, “it's just a
big, dumb popcorn movie.

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whatever - and that
holds true whether
it’s a comedy or a

big-budget action
movie. Working
within a particular

genre doesn't stop
you from dying to do
interesting work.

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can do within the Vf ;•
boundaries of that T'-:
style - how you can H
subvert it a little, or
what you can bring to it
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thing really powerful."

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and leave.

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O nce Todd Solondz had
completed his script for
Happiness, he changed
his phone number and
went ex-directory. He had
visions of right-wing ex-
tremists ringing up in (be
wee small hours; fantasised about letter
bombs being pushed through his door (“lit-
tle wrapped gifts in juvenile handwriting").
When Solondz’s British publicists wanted
to fly him over to promote the film, be at
first resisted Eventually tempted onto Con-
corde, he spent the whole three-hour
flight fretting that the plane was about to
crash. On the (pallid, skinny) face of it Todd
Solondz is not the bravest of men.

How then to square the film-maker with
his film ? Because whether you love it or
hate it, Happiness is undeniably a work of
tremendous courage; a comedy that touch-
es on child abuse; a multi-strand drama in
which its biggest monster (Dylan Baker's
clean-cut paedophile) is also arguably its
most decent and human inhabitant.

Stepping semi-stunned from the
cinema, I reckoned Happiness to be a film
pretty much without precedent Solondz,
thou g h, reels off a casual list of influences.
Happiness ' s suburban darkness comes
coloured by Hitchcock's Shadow of a
Doubt Its humane treatment of a sorio-
pathic central character was prompted by
Capote's true-crime novel In Cold Blood.

“And anyway" he adds, Tm not the first
to put a paedophile in a movie. I mean, my
God, just go back to Fritz Lang’s M."

“Or Kubrick’s Lolita,’' I suggest
‘‘No, not that one," says Solondz quick-
ly. “I love the Kubrick movie but it is not
about a paedophile because Sue Lyon is
not a child You can see that kind of
arrangement every day on Rodeo Drive
in Beverly Hills. No one’s getting arrest-
ed for that"

We are ensconced in an office five floors
above the hubbub of Soho. Solondz is stand-
ing upright moving gmgerfy from right foot
to left, because he has sciatica and Ms back

hurts when he's sitting down. He certain-
ly has the bearing of a man prone to ail-
ments: sniffles and sufferings either real
or imag ined. In the flesh, Solondz calls to
mind the sort of seven-stone weakling you
rarely see outside of a Gary Larson cartoon.
His hair is a thinning shock aboard a nar-
row skull. His froggy eyes are reduced to
raisins by the distorting glass of his NH5-
style specs. A grandpa's cardigan hangs
loosety over sloping shoulders.

Solondz’s voice is too, is classic geek-
speak a sort of meandering cat's yowl that
idles into a neutral undertone (“neeaarrgtO
as he gropes for the appropriate word It’s
like listening to radio static over dead
air Ask him how he'd argue with those who
find Happiness sick or amoral, and he starts

7 wish I liked film-
making more. I don't like
the stress. I can imagine
just dropping out '

out philosophical then loses the thread

“People see what they want to see. You
can't argue with someone's perceptions. If
Tm in this room and I say it's really hot and
you say it’s really cold y’know, there’s no
point in arguing. YTmow... (neeaarrgh)...
I think .- (ne eaar rgh) That's not a good
analogy... (neeaarghj... I don't know if I
would argue. I'd just say they're wrong."

What complicates Happiness is the
comedy. It is often hugely funny and yet
the laughter it induces is guilty, shame-
faced Those who have taken against the
film reckon that this is its undoing; that
it both invites us to sneer at its beat-up,
broken characters and (more crucially)
plays its more troubling elements as
knee-jerk shock tactics.

Solondz is aware of such responses.
Since touting Happiness on the festival
circuit, he feels he has docked the

entire spectrum of audience reactions.

“Some people laugh and feel guilty.
Some laugh just because they think it's
funny. Some people don't find it funny and
still reafty like ■*- 1' 111 not saying there's any-
thing wrong with any of those responses.
But I think that if one Ls laughing out of a
sense of superiority - ‘Oh, look, what a bunch
of freaks’ - then I will have failed for that
audience. Happiness is funny," he stress-
es, “but it’s not a joke."

In the m eantim e, I'm Still pll 22 ling
Solondz out; trying to figure how this frail
creature with his gripes, neuroses and
lugubrious wit came up with a picture that
takes so many risks and takes them so
confidently.Is the image a pose? Or are
there some dues in the Solondz past that
point to genuine rigour and resilience?

Solondz is pushing 40 but looks younger
The general assumption is thatHappiness
is the New Jersey-born director's second
picture (following his school-bullying com-
edy Welcome to the Dollhouse). In feet it
isn't. Ten years ago, fresh out of film school
Solondz signed a lucrative three-picture deal
with Twentieth Century Fox. A dream
come true. Except that things went awry
when his dftut picture- the apty titled Fern
Anxiety and Depression - was first recut
and then disowned by the studio bosses.

Glancing through Soiondz' official biog.
I notice that while his student shorts are
listed byname, this first feature has been
expunged from the records.

“Why would I mention something like
that?” Solondz howls. “It was a painful pe-
riod in my life. I don't need to reminisce
about try open sores. I still need more time. ”

So he hated the film too? “We all hated
it That was the only thing we agreed on."

At the time. Solondz thought he'd blown
his chance. He left the business, took a job
teaching English as a second language and
assumed that was that. Then came
Welcome to the Dollhouse 'which won the
Grand Jury Award at Sundance) and he
was right back in the fray.

All of which makes it tem p tin g to frame

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Solondz's story as a classic redemption; a
triumph over disaster; the bullied kid who
gets even. The problem appears solved.

Except that Solondz - awkward as ever
- is having none of it- He loved his teach-
ing gig. he says, and regards film-making
as a dreadful business.

“1 think most film-makers love what they
do. and I wish I loved it more. I really do.
But I don't like the stress. I don't I can
imagine just dropping out"

Solondz claims he was never happier

than during his years in the doldrums.
Under questioning, though, he clarifies this.

“It was a time in iqy life when I was with-
out ambition, and once you have ambition
you’re prone to be more miserable because
you have expectations and hopes that are
sure to be dashed. 'You’re setting yourself
up for disappointment”

He prods his glasses further up his
nose and allows a chink of sunlight to filter
through. “Now there are great things
obviously. Hie good thing about success is

that you don't have to dream about it any- ■’
more. I mean, it hasn’t changed me -I still
complain and whine all the time, it’s justless
becoming because there’s no reason for iL
For example, I say; TJrrgh, I don’t wanna .
go to London.’ But I can’t complain about
thaLTodd Solondz downshifts to neural
(“necaargh”), groping toward a note of
bliss ed-out, contented optimisnLlt is not,"
he concedes finally, “such a terrible fife.” sfo

‘Happiness’ is reviewed on page 10

'SWESTOFTY X

RUSHES

WHAT WAS claimed to be an
early draft of the script to
Stanley Kubrick’s last film
Eyes Wide Shut surfaced
last week on the Internet,
when it was auctioned off to
punters for a jaw-dropping
$255. (“Rushes” was
intrigued enough by the
possibility of a printed
sneak preview to stay in the
bidding until the price Mt
$200.) The Los Angeles-

based seller claimed to
have acquired the script
through a friend who
worked on the production.

The mystery over the
script's authenticity
deepened after the auction
when an unknown third
party contacted the website
through which the script
was sold, saying the sale
was “a breach of their
intellectual property rights”.

Bizarrely, however
Warner Brothers, who own
the film, say it wasn’t them.
A Warner’s spokesman
said that as far as the
company was concerned,
scripts for the film were
not for sale anywhere. He
added: “The Internet ranks
some way behind tea leaf
reading as a guide to the
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NEW FILMS

P BEDROOMS & HALLWAYS Ua, 96 mins)
Director Rose Troche
Starring: Kevin McKidd. Jennifer EHe
Bedrooms & Hallways, the latest offering from
the This Life school of British film-making, sees
Khvin McKSdd’s giddy Londoner being put through
all manner of romantic hoops in the run-up to
his 30th birthday. Kev’s orientation arrow spins
from gay to straight, his mates offer endless advice,
and Simon Callow pops up as a New Agey men's
group leaden Rose Troche's smooth direction
and McKidd’s winsome acting compensate for
an often smug and lightweight script
Hfest Er&ABCShaflestmryAvenue.Clapham Pic-
ture House Odeon Kenstogtim.Odean Mezzanine.
UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Fulham Road, Virgin
Haymarket Repertory: The Pullman Everyman

A CIVIL ACTION (15, 115 mins;

Director Steven Zaillian
Starring: John Travolta, Robert Duvall
John Travolta's ambulance-chasing lawyer takes
a shot at redemption in this complex and frequently
▲absorbing courtroom saga that nonetheless
raises inevitable comparisons with Sidney Lumet's
The Verdict Culled from a true story. A CivU
Action spins a David-and- Goliath-style drama, in
which blue-collar locals go head to head with the
big corporations who poisoned their water. Zaillian
negotiates the legal intricacies with ingenuity.
West End: Clapham Picture House, Empire
Leicester Square, UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Chelsea,
Virgin Trocadero. And local cinemas

THE FACULTY (15, 104 mins)

Director Robert Rodriguez

Starring: Elijah Wood, Shawn Hatosy

See The Independent Recommends, right.

West End: Odeon Camden Town, Odeon
Kensington . Odeon Marble Arch, Odeon Swiss
Cottage, UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Chelsea, Virgin
Trocadero, Warner Village West End And
p local cinemas

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.’ ■ Director Lisa Chotodenko

- -I’ i jrt* * Storing: Afly Sheedy. Radha Mitchell
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SX. X' West End: Curzon Sdha Ritzy Cinema, Screen
XX.'S* on the Green

n 6 (15,85 mins)

Director: Ffctot Lepage
Starring: Anne-Marie Cadfeux, Alexis Martin
Lepage's third feature obliquely spotlights Quebec's
push for independence in 1970 with an absurdist
parallel narrative that crosscuts between the
trials of a troubled actress and her activist boy-
friend. But its fascinating elements fail to gel;
its scenes unravel: its reach exceeds its grasp.
West End: ABC Swiss Centre. Barbican Screen

ORGAZMO (18, 90 mins)

Director Trey Parser
Storing: Trey Parker

Orgazmo looks like the love-child of Boogie
Nights and Flesh Gordon : a gambolling send-up
of the pom industry. Parker stars as a Mormon-
turned- skin-flick- superstar, Robin Lynne plays the
fiancee who stumbles upon his guilty secret
West End: Plaza

THE RED VIOLIN (15, 130 mins)

Director: Franks Girard
Starring: Samuel L Jackson. Greta Scacchi
Girard's daisy chain of historical vignettes follows
the course of a cursed violin down through
the centuries. Unfortunately, a thrift-shop budget
leaves many of the period backdrops looking like
cast-offs from a BBC schools programme. More
crucially, Girard's bitty narrative leaves his film
labouring in third gear throughout
West End- Barbican Screen, Odeon Haymarket,
Odeon Kensington. Odeon Swiss Cottage.
Local Hampstead ABC

SLAM (15, 99 mins)

Director: Mam Levin
Starring: Saul Williams. Sonja Sohn
Even if slam-poetry's clanking rhymes make
you want to “slam" the perpetrator’s head in a car
door; Mare Levin’s drama still carries an emotional
force. Saul Williams plays an Afro-American
Everyman, busted on a drugs charge before find-
ing freedom of expression through his rap stylings.
Levin's story is preachy and simplistic; earthy and
earnest Much like slam-poetry itself
What End- Metro. Ritzy Cinema. Local HoOoway
Odeon, New Stratford Picture House

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AMERICAN HISTORY X (18. 119 mins)

A liberal essay on right-wing fanaticism, this
nonetheless indulges in some dubious Nazi chic
as it charts the moral slide of a blue-collar racist
(Edward Norton). But it does boast a stunning
performance from Oscar-nominated Norton. West
End- Odeon Camden Town, Odeon Kensington,
Odeon MartHe Arch, Ritzy Cinema, UCI Whiteleys,
Virgin Trocadero, Warner Village West End.
And local cinemas

ARLINGTON ROAD (15, 117 mins)

Mark Pellington’s intriguing^ staged paranoia
thriller sees Jeff Bridges' college prof becoming
suspicious about the antics of his outwardly
respectable nei ghb our (Tim Robbins). West End:
UCI Whiteleys, Virgin Trocadero, Warner Village
West End. And local cinemas

AN AUTUMN TALE (CONTE D’AUTOMNE)

(U, ill nuns)

Eric Rohmer’s new romantic drama is airily
elegiac and as warm as sunshine West End
Chelsea Cinema. Curzon Saha. Renoir

■ ijjfetST FROM THE PAST 02, 109 mins)

Hugh Wilson's Cold W&r satire begins promisingly
enough, but it soon nosedives into brash
predictability With Alicia SHverstone and Brendan
Fraser West End- Virgin Trocadero, Warner
Village West End. And local cinemas

CENTRAL STATION (15. 110 mins)

Central Station trails Fernanda Montenegro's
retired schoolteacher and her ab andon ed n rne-year-
old charge an a hunt for the bey's m i s si ng father.
Wfest End- Curzon May/bir, Gate Notting HiU,
Renoir, Ritzy Cinema, Screen on Baker Street

FESTEN (THE CELEBRATION) US, 106 mins)
Filmed using natural light; natural sound and
a hand-held camera, Ffesten begins in a rush
of pure, unfettered drama Its rawness is largely
contrived, but by the end you're too hooted to
care. WestEhuL ABC Pardon Street

CUDS AND MONSTERS (15, UOmmsJ
See The Independent Rea/mmends, above. Wsst
End- ABC Tottenham Court Road, Clapham
Picture House, Curzon Soho, Screen on the HiU,
The Tricycle Cinema, Virgin Fulham Road
Local New Stratford Picture House

HILARY AND JACKIE 05, 121 mins)

Rachel Griffiths and Emily Watson sustain warts-
and-afl teopic of the Du Pr6 sisters, H0aiy (shy,
married flautist) and Jacqueline (world-famous
cellist). West End ABC Ponton Street

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (LA VITA E BELLA)

(PG, 116 mins)

Roberto Benigni’s comedy, In which the writer-
director stars as a dawning Jewish bookseller in
faa^Il^V^EndJIBCSwissCeTitre,Clapham
Picture House, Empire Leicester Square, Gate
Netting Hill CurroriMmema, Odeon Kensington,
(Odeon Mezzanine, Ritzy Cinema, Screen an
Jjjker Street, UCI Whiteleys , Virgin Chelsea
Virgin Haymarket And local cinemas

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (PG, 114 mins)
Mighfy Joe is a mutant gorilla, who hangs out ifl the
African jungle with his Tbrzan-type protectee
rn-aruy fluff, yet it boasts a ready charm that’s hard
tn dwKte w»*t End- Odeon Kgnsmgtoq Odeon Mior-
bteArcft, Odeon Swiss Cottage, Odeon West End,
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THE FIVE BEST FILMS

Gods and Monsters (1 5)

A droll speculation on the last days of 1930s horror
auteur James Whale (Ian McKellen), who is hypnotised
by the alluring form of hi* Beverly Hills gardener
(Brendan Fraser). Director Bill Condon won an Oscar
for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Pleasantville (12)

lUo Nineties teenagers are “sucked" into a favourite
Fifties sitcom and exert a dramatic influence on its
conformist black-and-white idylL A witty parable about
prejudice and change.

High Art (18)

A portrait of Lhe artist as lesbian
screw- up, Lisa Cholodenko's
bitterly witty tala. 1 [right) on New
York living, (and dying! boasts one
of the performances of the year
from Ally Sheedy.

The Faculty (1 5)

Kevin Williamson docs it again with this sci-fi talc
of alien invaders. Beautiful people, a sharp script,
subversive morals. Piper Laurie... Why can't all teen
dims be like this’?

Shakespeare in Love (1 5)

This enjoyable. Oscar-laden historical romp suggests
how romance fired Shakespeare with the inspiration
for Romeo and Juliet. Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth
Paltrow (Best Actress) head an impressive cast.

Anthony Quinn and Charlotte O’Sullivan

The Five Best Plays the Five Best shows

Good (Donmar Warehouse. London)
Starring Charles Dance. CP Taylor s play about
accommodations with conscience is revived in a
sensitive production by Michael Grandage. To 22 May

Gross Indecency

(Gielgud Theatre. London)

The artfully fractured form of Moises Kaufman's
compelling play about Oscar WDde manages to present
the writer in all his complexity. Booking to 5 Jun

Forbidden Broadway

(Jermyn Street Theatre, London)

Deliciously spiteful and tremendously funny selection
of musical theatre spoofs from Sondheim to The Lion
King via Elaine Paige. To 16 May

Colombe (Salisbury Playhouse)
Up-and-coming director Jonathan Church signs off
at Salisbury with the characteristically bold and
imaginative choice of an Anouilh comedy set In
Paris's theatrical demi-monde. To 17 Apr

Unde Vanya

{Mercury Theatre.
Colchester)

Gregory Floy sluts in the Chekhov
classic \rigfu) - the
second leg of Merouy Theatre's
brave experiment in forming a
resident ensemble of actors far
nine months of the year. To 24 Apr

Paul Taylor

Jackson Pollock

{Tate Gallery)

Big, revela lore retrospective for
the wild hero of Abstract
Expressionism (going on Old
Master), legendary for his great
drip paintings, but virtually
unknown here for 40 yearn
[right). To 6 Jim

Antony Gormley’s ‘Reid’

(firscsi te at Culver St, Colchester)

One of the great bits of the decade: a sea of 40.000
pint-sized clay men - obedient, expectant, menacing,
and stopping dead in a line at your feeL To 3 May

Portraits by Ingres (National Gallery)

Some of the smartest, most intense portraiture ever
Men as icons of power: women as exquisite melanges
of flesh and fabric. To 25 Apr

Henri IHfchaux (Whitechapel Gallery)

He travelled He wrote. He took drugs. And, inspired by-
grief and mescaiiru he created amazing, wobbly bobbly
wibbty scribbly fine-grain line drawings. To 25 Apr

Andreas Gursky

(Dean Gallery, Edinburgh)

Photographs 1994-98: huge, panoramic, high-finish,
micro-detailed, digitally manipulated images of our
world - stock-exchange floor, cityscape, hotel foyer.
Vistas of more than the eye can see. To 16 May

Tom Lubbock

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West End

Xan Brooks

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (15,92 mins)
Charles Laughton’s 1955 drama hinges on a
legendary bit of screen villainy from Robert
Mitcham as a murderous preacher West End:
Curzon Soho. Renoir

PAYBACK (18, 102 mins)

Revisiting the source that inspired John Boorman's
Point Blank, this revenge thriller sends its
double-crossed-and^eft-for-dead anti-hero (Mel
Gibson) on a mission to get his money back and
to get even. West End ABC Tottenham Court
Road, Odeon Camden Town. Odeon Kensington.
Odeon Marble Arch, Odeon Swiss Cottage, UCI

Whatdeys, Virgin Fulham RacuLWrginTrocadero,
Warner Village West End And local cinemas

PLEASANTVILLE 02. 124 mins)

See The Independent Recommends, above. West
End Plaza Warner Village West End

PLUNKETT AND MACLEANE (15, 101 mins)
Plunkett and Madeane are rakish Dick Turpins
cutting a dash through 18th-century society.
Plunkett (Robert Carlyle) packs a pistol, while
Ma cteme fjnnnyljw Milter! romances a debutante
(Liv IJpter). instead of a decent plot, director
Jake Scott offers noise and pop-promo visuals.
West End: ABC Tottenham Court Road, Clapham
Picture House. Wotting Hill Coronet, Odeon
Camden Town. Odeon Kensington, Odeon
Leicester Square, Odeon Marble Arch. Odeon
Swiss Cottage, Ritzy Cinema, UCI Whiteleys,
Virgin Fulham Road. And local cinemas

THE RUGRATS MOVIE OJ. 90 mins)

Given the small-screen success of the Rugrats
(cartoon, toddlers up to no good), a feature-length
foray was always in the offing. Kids, no doubt, will
eat this up. Adults should simply grin and bear it
West End Odeon Marble Arch, Ritzy Cinema. UCI
Whiteleys, Virgin Chelsea, Virgin Trocadero.
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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (15, 123 minsi

See The Independent Recommends, above.
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TEA WITH MUSSOLINI (PG. 117 mins)

Franco Zeffirelli's Tkta with Mussotini ambles
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TUscany West End Empire Leicester Square,
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Phoenix Cinema And local cinemas

THE THIN RED LINE 05, 170 mins)

Tterrence Malick's long-awaited return to
directing isa fabulous, fever-struck warfilflLAcast
nf fa miliar feces (John Travolta, George Clooney)
play second fiddle to the creeping narcotic mood
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WAKING .NED (PG, 91 mins)

Good news: Ned, a salt-of-the-earth resident of
Thllymore, has won the lottery. Bad news: Ned is
dead. Cue a rattle-bag of comedic misadventures
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9pm The 39 Steps (1935 Version}
320pm. 730pm

CURZON MAYFAIR

K3I71 -369 1720) O Green Pan. Central
Station 1 40pm. 3 45pm. 6.15pm. 8.45pm

CURZON M1NEMA

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Comei/KnighistHicJge La VHa 6 Befla
3pm. 6 30pm, 8.50pm

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10171-734 2255 (l2noon-6pm»

O Leicester Square Conte d'Automne
2pm. 4 15pm. 6.30pm Gods and
Monsters 420pm. 9.30pm High Art
2pm. 4.45pm. 7pm. 9.20pm Night ol
the Hunter 2 15pm. 7.i5pm

EMPIRE LEICESTER SO

A CMI action 12 .45pm. 3 25pm.

6 1 5pm. 9pm Tea with Mussolini
12,30pm. 3.15pm. 6pm. 0.45pm La Vita

4 BeBa IZnoon, 2 45pm. S 45pm.
8.30pm

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La VHa 6 Bella 3 55pm. 8 45pm

METRO

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8pm, 850pm

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American History X 2 4ijpm. 540pm.
035pm A Bug’s Ufa 1210pm The
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6.45pm, 9pm Payback 11 aSam, 2.10pm,
4JSpm. 640pm, 9.05pm Pfcmkett and
Madeane 11.40am. 1.55pm. 410pm.
625pm, 8.40pm This Veal’s Low
12.20pm. 430pm. 840pm Waksig Ned
235pm. 650pm

ODEON HAYMARKET

The Red Violin 2pm 5 30pm.
8.25pm

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Kensington Bedrooms and Hallways
250pm. 5.15pm. 7 40pm. 1005pm

A Bug's life ipm The Faculty
130pm. 4pm, 8 40pm. 920pm Mighty
Joe i2.iopm Payback 7.l5pm.
950pm Phaikett and Madeane
2pm. 4.30pm, 6.55pm. 925pm

The Red Violin is 05pm 3 iOpm
6.1 5pm. B ,20pm La Vita 6 Beda
3,50pm. 6 35pm. 9 20pm Waking Ned
2 45pm, 5pm

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Plunkett and Madeane 1.40pm.
4pm. 6 25pm. 8 50pm

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3 35pm. 610pm. 8 55pm Mighty Joe
1 10pm. 3-S0prn Payback 1.15pm.
3.40fm, 6.25pm. 905pm Plunkett and
Madeane 2.i0pm. 4 30pm. 6 50pm.
9.15pm The Rugrats Movie 1 10pm.
3.i0pm. 5.05pm Shakespeare in
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7pm. 9 10pm

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Bedrooms and Hallways 2 10pm,
4.15pm. 625pm. 8 35pm A Bug's
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12.35pm. 3.05pm. 5 35pm. 8.20pm The
Thin Red Line 12.55pm. 4.15pm.

7 40pm This Year's Love 6.20pm.
B40pm La Vita & Bella 12,45pm.
3 20pm. 6pm. 8 40pm

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(08705-050017) O Swiss Co Rape
A Bug's Life i 3o pm The Faculty
l.05pm. 350pm. 625pm. 8.50pm

Mighty Joe 12 40pm Payback
3 45pm. 6 15pm 8 45pm Plunkett and
Madeane i 15pm. 3*5pm, 6i5pm.
8.45pm The Red Violin 1 2.05pm.
2.45pm. 5.30pm 8 20pm Shakespeare
to Love 3pm. 5 45pm. 825pm Tea
with Mussolini 1 2.30pm. 3 10pm.
5.50pm. 8 30pm

ODEON WEST END

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Blue Planet 12 35pm Everest
4.45pm. 9 05pm 1+ shcn More) L5 The
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7pm T-Oer: Back to the

Cretaceous (3-D) n 30am i 35pm.

3 40pm. 5 50pm. 8pm. 10 10pm

PLAZA

Orgazmo 12 45pm, 3 15pm. 5 30pm.
Bpnr Saving Private Ryan 12 15pm

4 i5pm. 7*5pm Shakespeare in
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Conte d’Automne 1 35pm 3.55pm.
6 25pm 8*5pm Night of the Hunter

J 35pm. 9pm

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Station 2 05pm. 690pm Dr DoGtfle
10 30am High Art 1 2 30pm, 2 45pm.
5pm. 7 iOpm. 925pm 1+ short Angai)
Insomnia ipm Mulan 1 0 30am
Plunkett and Madeane 12 10pm.

2 35pm. 4.45pm. 7 05pm. 9J0pm

i * ihori ArntirahflBsi The Rugrats
Movie 10 50am. 12*5pm. 2 35pm.

4 25pm Shakespeare in Love 7pm
Slam 2.55pm. 5 05pm 7.15pm. 9 30pm
La Vita e Bella *20pm. 9.i0pm

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Central Station 3 SOpm. 6 20pm.

8 45pm La Vita e Befla 3 40pm
8 10pm a 35pm

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High Art 4 25pm. 6 40pm. 6 55pm
(+ short Ewaj Little Voice C.30pm

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945pm A Bug’s Life 1pm A Civil
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The Faculty 1 45pm * Tijpm. 7pm.
9if5pm Mighty Joe 1 30pm Payback

3 50pm. 630pm. 9.45pm Plunkett and
Madeane ISJOpm. 240pm. 4.50pm.
720prTL 94tpm The Rugrats Movie
12 15pm, 220pm, 4.10pm Shak e speare
In Lowe t.iQpm. 9pm lha with
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9 10pm La Vita a Befla i2noon. 3 10pm.
6pm.85Cpm

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3pm 63C>pm. 9pm The Faculty ipm.
3 45pm. 6i5pm. 8 45pm La VHa e
Befla 12 46pm, 315pm, 6pm B 30pm
Waking Ned 1 15pm. i30pm.

5 45pm. 8 15pm

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Bedrooms and Hallways ipm.
3 30pm. fiWpm. 9 iQpm Gods and
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8 40pm Payback 1 40pm 4 iOpm.

6 50pm 920pm Plunkett and
Madeane 12 iOpm. 2 3£pm, 4 50pm.
7i0pm 630 diti Shakespeare in
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Cot M@i1 2. J 0pm 530pm 3pm

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Bedrooms and Hallways 3 15pm.
6.45pm, B 15pm La Vita * Bella 2pm.
6.15pm, 9pm The Thin Red Line

2.45pm, 8pm

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(0870-907 0718) 0 PtocadOy Cirrus
American History X 8.10pm
Arlington Road 6pm. 8 30pm Blast
hem the Past 12.40pm. 3.20pm.
5.20pm A Bug’s Life 12.15pm A Civil
Action 1 2.05pm. 2.15pm. 4.30pm,
6.45pm, 9pm The Faculty 12.10pm.
2.25pm. 4.35pm, 6 50pm. 9.05pm

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855pm The Rugrats Movie 11. 55am.
1.50pm. 3.50pm Shakespeare to
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The Tens Chainsaw Massacre
2.20pm. 4.23pm. 6^0pm. 845pm

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American History X 1230pm,
3.15pm. 6.20pm 955pm Arlington
Road 1230pm. 3.10pm, 6.15pm.

9 10pm Blast from the Past
12.55pm. 335pm. 6.05pm. 840pm A
Bug** Life 1220pm, 2.35pm, 450pm
The Faculty 150pm. 4pm, 630pm.
9pm The Opposite of Sex 725pm,
9 45pm Payback 1130am. 1pm. 2pm,
330pm. 4 30pm. 6pm. 7pm. 830pm.
&30pm Pfeasantvflle 920pm The
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520pm. 730pm You’ve Got M@il
1250pm. 3 30pm. 6 10pm. B.50pm

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ACTON

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Blast from the Past 1.1 Opm. 350pm.
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120pm A CMI Action 1120am 2pm.

4 40pm. 710pm. 9.40pm The Faculty
220pm, 4 50pm. 730pm. 9 50pm Jack
Frost Itinoon Madeline H 15am Mighty
Joe 11am. 1.40pm, 4 15pm Payback
1 50pm. 4pm. 6 40pm, 9pm Plunkett and
Madeane it 30am. 1 50pm, 4.30pm,
7pm. 930pm The Prince of Egypt
12 30pm The Rugrats Movie 1050am,
12 40pm. 230pm. 4.30pm. 650pm Shake-
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Waking Ned 2.10pm. 4 20pm. 650pm.
B 40pm You’ve Got M©H 730pm

BARNET

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The Faculty 4pm. 620pm. 8 30pm Lit-
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kett and Madeane 1 30pm. 4.15pm
7pm. 9pm The Rugrats Movie 12000/1,
Cpm, 5pm Shakespeare in Love 8.45pm
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ABC [O07U-9CG 0412) BR: Beckenham Junc-
tion A Bug’s Life 1.10pm. 6.10pm
The Faculty 220pm. 635pm. 850pm
Madeline 12.15pm. 435pm Plunkett
and Madeane 6 1 5pm. 9 *opm The Ru-
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Shakespeare In Love 325pm. 820pm

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930pm Blast from the Past 2 30pm.

5 05pm, 7 30pm. 9.50pm A Bug’s Life
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4 05pm. 6.40pm. 9.20pm The Faculty

1 55pm. 4 30pm. 6 45pm. 9 15pm Jack
Proet i2noon MadeBno lTJOamUSghty
joe 11 30am. 2pm. 7pm Patch Adams
430pm. 5 30pm Payback 2.20pm,

4 40pm. 7pm. 9 20pm. 10pm Plunkett
and Madeane 1 2 20pm. 4 50pm,

7 Mpm 9 35pm The Rugrats Movie

H. 05am, 11 50am, ipm. 1.50pm, 2.55pm.
4p.m. 6pm. 8pm Shakespeare In Love
5pm. 7 30pm. 8.55pm Waking Ned

I. 45pm 3 45pm. 5 45pm. 7.45pm. 9 45pm

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12.50pm. 3.15pm. 6.15pm. 8.40pm The
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4 15pm 6 35pm Waking Ned 8 50pm

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545pm. 8 30pm Plunkett and
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5 30pm. & 10pm Mighty Joe 1220pm.

2 40pm The Rugrats Movie 1pm.
3 10pm Waking Ned 2.45pm. 5 35pm

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BR: £nsi Croydon Arlington Road
8 50pm Blast from the Pas* l.ioptn,

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tion 1 5Qpm, 4.20pm. 6.50pm. 9 15pm
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jack Frost 1 0 40am Madeline

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4 i Opm. 6.30pm, 9pm Plunkett and
Madeane lVIOam. 1 30pm. 3 50pm.
7 20pm 9 40pm The Prince of Egypt

1 1 30am The Rugrats Movie
10 30Jm 12 30pm 2.30pm. 420pm, 7pm
Shakespeare in Love 6 10pm. 8.30pm

Waking Ned 1pm, 320pm. 520pm.
7.40pm. 920pm

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0 Dagenham Headway American
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920pm Blast from the Past 1.20pm.
3.50pm. 620pm. B.50pm A Bug's Ufe
1020am. 1pm A CMI Action 1.40pm.
420pm. 7.iopm, B.40pm The Faculty
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1120am Madeline li.ioam Mighty
Joe Ham. 1.50pm. 425pm Payback
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Plunkett and Madeane 12 10pm.
220pm. 5pm. 7.05pm, 920pm The Prtoeo
of Egypt 11.20am The Rugrats Movie
10.40am. 12.40pm. 2.40pm. 4.40pm, 7pm'
Shakespeare In Une 3.10pm, 520pm.
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toe fc an 62tkvn. 850pm The Rigped
Movie 1220pm. 220pm. 4.30pm

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0 Tonenham Hale A Bug's Life 3.1 Opm
A CMI Action 2 15pm. 4.40pm. 7.10pm.
9.45pm The Faculty 220pm. 420pm.
720pm. 920pm Wgfity Joe 3.40pm
Payback 2pm, 4.20pm. 6.50pm. 9.10pm
Plunkett and Madeane 1 50pm.
4.10pm. 7pm, 9 20pm The Rugrats
Movfe 2. 10pm, 220pm. 420pm. 5 15pm.
6.40pm. 7 30pm Shakespeare In Love
320pm. 6pm, 8.40pm Tea with Mue-
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Waking Ned 4pm. 6 30pm. 8 35pm

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A Castle The Faculty 3.40pm, 6.10pm,
8.45pm Plunkett and Madeane
320pm, 6pm 8.50pm

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0555) BR; Fehriam Aanoo 1 1 -03am. 3pm,
620pm. 9.40pm Anari No 1 3.40pm.
9.15pm Blast from the Past 1120am,
1 40pm. 4.10pm. 6.40pm, Opm A Bug's
Lite 10.30am. 122Spm. 2 40pm A cavil
Action ii 20am. 1.50pm. 420pm. 7pm.
9 30pm HI To Pagal Hai U 15am.
6.05pm The Faculty n.SOam, 2.1 Opm,
4.30pm, 6.45pm. 9 15pm International
Khiladi 3.15pm. 6.30pm. B. 55pm
Jaanam Samjha Karo ii25om.

2 45pm. 6.10pm. R35pm Jack Rost
il^OamKiKh Kuch Koto Hal 3.50pm.
920pm The Last Days of Dtsec
1220am Madeline 10.50am. 1220pm
Mighty Jee 10.40am, 1 15pm, 3.50pm
Patch Adams Ham. 1 20pm, 7pm
Payback 2pm. 4.3Cpm. 0.50pm. 9.20pm.

1 Opm Phaikett and Madeane 1 1 25am,
1 10pm. 5pm. 7.15pm. 9.30pm The
Rugrats Movie i ram. iznoon, ipm. 2m.
3pm. 4pm. 6pm. 8pm Shakespeare
in Lows 4.45pm, 720pm. 9.50pm Wak-
ing Med 3.05pm. 5.10pm. 7.10pm, 9.15pm

FINCHLEY

WARNER VILLAGE (0181-446 93-MI

0 Finchley Central Arlington Road
9 20pm Blast from the Past 1pm,
3.40pm, 610pm, 920pm A Bug's Life
1020am. 12. 90pm A CtvB Action 1.10pm,
350pm. 620pm, 9pm The Faculty 3.1 5pm,
6 40pm. 9 10pm Jack Frost 1 0 40am La
Wtafr Bella 620pm Mad e line 11 20am
Mighty Jem I020an. 140pm. 420pm Play-
back i lam. 120pm, 4pm, 6pm. 8.4(kxn
PlunKett and Madeane 1 1 ,30am. 2pm.
430pm. 625pm. 930pm The Prince of
Egypt io.50am The Rugrats Movie
11.10pm. 1.15pm. 320pm Shakespeare
In Love 7pm. 9.50pm Waking Ned
1 50pm. 4.40pm. 7.10pm, 9.40pm

GOLDERS GREEN

HOLDERS GREEN ABC (0181-455 1 724)
GoWers Green A Civil Action 2.45pm.
825pm The Rugrats Movie 5.15pm

HAMMERSMITH

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ParUHammersrratti The Faculty 1 20pm,

3.50pm, 6.30pm. 9pm Mighty Jee
' 2nnnn. 3.1 0pm Payback 3.15pm,
620pm, 9pm Mimkett and Mactoane
620pm. 8.45pm The Rugrats Movie

1 30pm. 3.40pm

HAMPSTEAD

ABC (0870-902 0413) 0 Betefee Park
The Red Vtofin 2.15pm. 5.15pm, 8.15pm
The Rugrats Movie 120pm, 320pm
The with Mussolini 2.45pm. 52Spm,
B25pm La Vita fr Bella 5 45pm. 630pm

HARROW

SAFARI CINEMA (0181-426 0303)
0 Hamm ontte HlUHarraw & Weaklstone
Hum Aopfce D3 Mein Rehte Haln
1 20pm, 5pm, 0.45pm Jaanam Sam|ha
Karo 1 .30pm, 5pm. B 45pm

WARNER VILLAGE (0181-427 9009)
0 Harrow on the Hill American Histo-
ry X 920pm Arlington Read 8 50pm
Blast from the Past 1220pm. 3.10pm,
6.10pm, 3pm A Bug’s Life J040sm,
1pm A Chrfl Action 11.10am. i 40pm,
4 JOpm, 640pm. 9.50pm The Faculty
12.30pm. 3pm. 5.20pm, 8.30pm Jack
Frost 10.50am Madeline 1020am
Mighty Joe 10 10am. i£.4Qpm. 320pm
Payback 11am. 120pm. 4pm. 6.30pm.
9<0pm Plunkett and Madeane
10.30am. 1.20pm, 3.50pm, 7pm,

925pm The Prints® of Egypt 10am
The Ragrgtft Movie 9.50am.
l2noon, 2,10pm. 420pm. 6.50pm
Shak e speare In Love 3 30pm. 620pm.

920pm Waking Ned 1.10pm. 3.40pm.
SiSOpm. 8.40pm Vbu^ie Get M@il 620pm

HOLLOWAY

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Road/ Archway Blast from the Past
120pm. 320pm. 620pm. 8 JOpm A Bug's
Life 12.10pm. 1225pm. 220pm A Civil
Action 12Dprn, 360pm, 6.15pm. 8 45pm
The Faculty 2.10pm. 420pm. 630pm.
B20pm Madeline 1220pm iflgbty Joe
12-Mpm. 3pm Payback 4.(Bpm. 6.40pm.
8.55pm Plunkett and Madeane
2.15pm. 420pm. 6.45pm. 9pm The Ru-
grats Movie 1 2noon. 2pm, -4pm. 6 iOpm
Shakespeare in Love 520pm. 820pm
Slam 825pm Waking Ned 12 45pm.
250pm. 450pm, 7pm. 9.10pm

ILFORD

ODEON (08705-050007) 0 Gan Is Hll
The Faculty i pm. 3 40pm. 6pm. 8.40pm
Kuch Kuch Hota Hal 720pm
Mighty Joe 1240pm, 3 30pm Paybadr
6.05pm. 8.45pm Plunkett and

Madeane 12noon. 2.10pm, 6.10pm.
8.30pm The Rugrats Movie I2noon.
2 10pm. 420pm Waking Ned 12.30pm.
3pm. 520pm. 855pm

KINGSTON

ABC OPTIONS (0870-902 0409)
BR: Kingston A Bug's Life i.£5pm
The Farmlty 225pm. 5.55pm. 820pm
Payback 2.25pm, 825pm Plunkett
and Madeane 6 06pm. 8.30pm The
Rugrats Movie 225pm. 4.15pm
Shakespeare in Love 550pm

MUSWELL HILL

ODEON (08705-050007) 0 Hlgtigaie
The Faculty 4.05pm, 625pm. &«0pm
Mighty Joe i .45pm Payback 6.45pm,
8.50pm Plunkett and Madeane
2.15pm, 430pm. 6.56pm. 9pm La Vita
6 Befla 120pm

PECKHAM

PREMIER (0101-2353006) BR: Peckham
Rye American History X 9. T5pm Blast
from the Past 12.15pm. 225pm. 430pm,
7pm A Bug’s Life 12.40pm, 2.40pm
A Chrfl Action l.40pm.4.lCpm, 6.40pm,
910pm The Faculty 4.45pm. 7.05pm,
925pm Madefine 1220pm Mighty Joe
l2noon, 2.30pm Payback 4 35pm,
7.05pm, 9.05pm Plunkett and

Madeane 225pm. 4.40pm. 630pm. 9pm
The Rugrats Movie 12.i0pm, 2.15pm,

4 20pm. 625pm. B2bpm

PURLEY

ABC (0870-902 0407) BR. Pulley A Bug’s
Lite 3pm A Chrfl Action 5.50pm. 830pm
The Foody 5.1 Cpm. a 1 0pm flflghfy Joe
2 40pm Plunkett, and Madeane
6.iOpm. fl.35pm The Rugrats Made
215pm, 4 15pm

PUTNEY

Plunkett and Madeane 5.46pm
8.15pm The Rugrats Mode i 15pm.
3.30pm Shakespeare In Love 5 45pm

RICHMOND

ODEON (08705-050007) BR.*© ftahmond
The Faculty 1 30pm. 4pm. 6 JOpm. 9.1 opm
Madeline i2noon Plunkett and
Madeane 1 4 idjm BHkm. 930pm
Waking Ned 120pm. Jpm 7pm. 0.40pm

ODEON STUDIO (0870&W0007)
OV0 Fhavnond A Bug's Life 1230pm.
3frn BBghty Joe 1 1 0pm. a-Mpm Payback
5pm. 7.10pm. 930pmThe Rugrats Mo vie
1250pm. 240pm. 4.30pm, 6.30pm Shake-
speare to Love G 10pm. 9pm Tea with
MussoBnl 12-SOpm. 340pm. 620pm.
9.1 Opm The Thin Red Line 830pm

ROMFORD

ABC (0870-902 0419) BR: Romford
The Faculty 210pm. 5 40pm. 825pm
Payback 225pm. 8.40pm Phinfcett and
Madeaue 2^0pm. 5 35pm. 8.25pm

The Rugrats Movie 6 10pm

ODEON LIBERTY 2 (03705450007)
BR: flsrioid Blast bom Bra Past 1 05pm.
350pm. 620pm. 855pm A CMI Action
1260pm. a^Opm. 5.55pm. 025pm The
Fpcutty 1.35pm, 4pm, 625pm, 850pm
Mighty Joe 1 2. 30pm. 3 iOpm Patch
Adams 5.45pm. 8^5pm Payback 155pm.
4 15pm. 630pm. 8.45pm Hunkett and
Madeane 1215pm. 2.35pm. 540pm.
830pm The Rugrats Movie 12.05pm.
2.15pm, 430pm, 6 45pm Shakespeare In
Love ajOpmWdSng Ned i .55pm, 435pm,
6.40pm. 8 40pm

S1DCUP

ABC 10541-555131} BR S*dcupA Bug's
Life 12.30pm The Faculty 2.45pm,

5 45pm. 8.30pm Plunkett and
Madeane 6.10pm. 8.40pm The Rugrats
Movie 12 i5pm. 2.15pm, 4,t5pm

STAPLES CORNER

VIRGIN (0570-907 0717) BR: Cnckkwood
Blast front the Past MSpm, 3.50pm,
6 15pm A Bug's Life 12. 15pm A Cfvfl Ac-
tion 2.30pm. 4 45pm. 7pm. 920pm The
Faculty 1.30pm, 4pm. 630pm. 9pm
IBgtity Joe ipm. 3.45pm Payback

6 JOpm. 9pm Plunkett and Ma d eane
1.40pm. 355pm. 6.15pm, 8.40pm The
Rugrats Movie IZnoon. 2.15pm. 450pm
Shakespeare in Love 6.45pm

Ned 7pm. 9.10pm

STRATFORD

NEW PICTURE HOUSE (0181-5553368)
BR/0 SBaBwd A Bug's LHe 12,30pm The
Faculty 3.50pm. B-lOpm, 8^0pm Gods
and Monsters 6J0pm Mighty Joe
12.35pm Payback 2pm. 4.1 5pm. 6.45pm
Plunkett and Madeane 2 3Qpm,
4.45pm, 7pm. 9.15pm The
Rugrats Movie i20pm. 3.10pm, 5pm
Slain 6.46pm, 0.10pm

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ABC (0870-902 0415) BR; Straatham Hi!
Blwt from the Past 2.15pm. 5.45pm
A Cnrii Actio n 1 .43pm. 4.05pm. 8.25pm.
0 40pm ‘The Bagrats Movie 1.55pm,
3 -50pm Stukespearo in Love &20pm
1*a w«h MuswMm 550pm. 850pm

WIMBLEDON

OOEON (00705050007) BFfrO Wbnbtedon
A Bug’s Life 12.25pm. 230pm The Fac-
ulty 1.40pm. 4pm. 6.20pm. B.45pm
Mighty Joe 11.40am. 2pm. 4^0pm Pay-
back 6.35pm, 6.50pm Plunkett and
Macleans 1.15pm. 3.45pm. 6 15pm.
8 45pm The Rugrats Movie 1 1 20am.
1.10pm. 3pm, 4.50pm. 6.40pm Shake-
speare In Love 625pm Making Ned
4 35pm. 6.45pm. 8.55pm

WOODFORD

ABC I01B1 -989 3463) O- South Woodford
A Civil Action 1 55pm. 4.05pm. 6.20pm.
8.35pm Payback 820pm Phmkett and
Hachune 2.40pm. 6.05pm. 820pm The
Rugrats Movie 1 20pm, 320pm. 520pm

REPERTORY

LONDON

LLGFR CINE LUMIERE Ouecnsbsrry
Place. SW7 (01 7: -836 2144*2146) L'Airisre
Pays (NC) 7pm

LLGFFii CURZON SOHO Shaftesbuy Av-
enue. WT (0171-734 2255) (I2noorv6pmi)

Le Tralte du Hasard (NC) 9pm

ICA CINEMA The Mall. 5W1 10171-930
3647) Chronicle of a Summer (NC)
5pm. 7pm Mizu Ne Naka No Hachl-
gatsu (NC) 6 20pm. 8 45pm The Last
Movie (NC) 9pm

THE LUX CINEMA Ho con Square. N1
10171-684 0201] Fate (NO 7pm. 9pm
LLGFFS NFT South Ban*.. SET (0171 928
3232) The Unfaithful (NO 2pm Total-
ly Confused (NO 4pm Can Art be
Gay?: An Evening with Leo Bernard
(NC) 6.15pm The Grace of God (NO
6 30pm Male Bait (NO B-40pm Portfand
Stre e t Blues (NC) 6 45pm
PRINCE CHARLES Leraster Place. WC2
(01 71 -437 81 01 1 Mulan (U) 1 1 45am Boo-
gie Nights (18) 1 ,45pm The FPII Mon-
ty (15) 4 50pm Pecker (18) 7pm There’s
Something About Mary (IS) 9.05pm
THE PULLMAN EVERYMAN HoSyBush
Vale. NW3 (0845-606 2345) Bedrooms
and Ha8way s (fS) 4pm. 640pm. 8J5pm

RIVERSIDE STUDIOS Crisp Road. WE
(0171-420 0100) Chasing Amy (18)
630pm + The Opposite ol Sax (18) 6.50pm

WATERMANS ARTS CENTRE High
Street Brentford. Middlesex (0181-568
1176) Waking Ned (PG) 1 30p:.i. 5pm.
9pm k (Pt) (IS) 7pm

BRISTOL

WATERSHED (01 1 7-925 3845) Wdeous
Kinky (15) 6pm. 8.20pm Festen
(15) 6.10pm Elizabeth (15) 820pm
(aucfio described)

CAMBRIDGE

ARTS CINEMA (01223-504444) Conte
d'Anturane (U| ipm. 7.15pm Gods
and Monsters (15) 3pm, 9.15pm
Sduzopofts (is) 5pm

CARDIFF

CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE (01222^99666)
PerdKa D ura ngo (19) 2 20pm . 720pm
Dancing at Lughnasa (PG) 6.15pm
Gods and M o ns ter s (15) 6.15pm

CHICHESTER

NEW PARK FILM CENTRE (01243-
786850) A Bug’s Lite (U) 1.15pm
You’ve Got M@ll (PG) 3.30pm
Stepmom (12) 6.15pm

COVENTRY

WARWICK ARTS CENTRE (01203-
524524) Waking Ned (PG) 6.30pm
P aint ed Angels (IS) 9pm

IPSWICH

FILM THEATRE (01473-275544) Central
Station (15) 2.30pm. 6.16pm. 6^0pm
PenOta Durango (18) 6pm The Apple
(51b) (PG) 8.15pm

NORWICH

CINEMA CTTY (016036220471 The Acid
House (18) 2.30pm. 5.46pm Very Bad
Things (18) 8 15pm

PLYMOUTH

PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE (01752-
206114) La Vita i Bella (PG) 8pm

COLINTRYWTOE

BASINGSTOKE

WARNER VILLAGE (01256-618738):
A Bug's Life (U); This Year's Love (18);
Madeline (U); Blast tram tba Pest (12);
Waking Ned (PG): YOuVe Got M&il
(PG); Arlington Road (15): Jack Frost
(PG); A Ctvfl Action (15). Saving Pri-
vats Ryan (15); Mighty Joe (PG):
Payback (18); Plunkett id Ma c tea n o
(15); The Faculty (15); Shakespeare
in Love (15): The Rugrats Movie (U);
The Prince of Egypt (U)

BATH

ROBINS (D5U '560561); A Bug** life (U);
La Vila * Bella (PG): Ptarabett and
Madam fiS): The FtoctAy (15); hSghty
Joe (PG). The Prleco of Egypt (U)

BOURNEMOUTH

ODEON (08705-050007); La Vita t Italia
(PG); Wafcaig Ned (PG); A Bug’s Ue (U):
Mighty Joe (PG): Plunkett and
M n e loan e (15): Payback (18): The Rn>
ulty (15). Dr DoflUe (PG); Arte ton Read
(15): Ante (PG); Smal Sokflars (PG); Mu-
fan (U); Babe Pig la the CSy (U)

BRIGHTON

VIRGIN (0541-555145). A CMI Action
(15): Sh akes pea r e In Love (15); Pfcm-
kett and Madeane (15); Blast from
the Past {121 (The Rugrats Movie (U);
M a d cfi n o fl J); Americ an Hbtoty X (IS);
A Bug’s Ule (U): Payback (18): Wak-
ing Ned (PG): Mighty Joe (PG); Ar-
lington Road (15); The Faculty (15):
The Swan Princ e ss (U)

BRISTOL

CINEWORLD THE MOVIES (01275-
631300): Blast (ram the Past (12): A
Bug’s life (U); Plunkett and Macleans
(15); You’ve Got M@8 (PG); Dil TVs
Regal Hal (PG); Aiftagton Road (15):
ACrvd Action (15); The Thin Red Line
(15): Shakespeare hi Love (15);
Vita * Seda (PG); PleasantvMe (12;;
Ante (PG); Kuch Kucti Kota Hal (PG);

Ever After (PG); Waking Ned (PG):
Patch Adam (12); Madeline (U);
Js i w ni Samjha Karo (NQ: Urban
Legend (IQ; Payback (10); The Rufats
Movie (U); This Year's Love (18);
MgMy Joe (PG): Saving Private Ryan
(15); Jack Best (PG)

«*ON (087O5D5OOO7) BR: siraamam H*
American History X 630pm A Buffs
Life 12.20pm. 220pm The Faculty
1 40pm. 4.10pm. 6.30pm. SJOpm, Made-
line 1.40pm Mighty Joe 12.40pm.
3 10pm, 540pm Payback 325pm. 515pm.
8.40pm Plunkett and Madeane
1250pm, 330pm, 8.10pm, 820pm Waking
Ned 420pm, 620pm, 8 40pm

SUTTON

UCI fl (0990888990) BR- Sutton A Bog’s
Life 1.15pm ACM Action 1pm, 320pm,
6pm. 8.30pm The Faculty 425pm.
7.20pm. 9.45pm Mighty Joe 130pm.
4 40pm Payback 7pm. 920pm Phmkett
and Mackrane 4.15pm, 840pm, gpm The
Rugrats Movie 1.45pm. 4pm, 6.T5pm
Shakespeare in Lon 8.46pm Staking
Ned 2.05prr\ 7.10pm. 9.15pm

SWISS COTTAGE

WARNER VILLAGE (0171-804 3110)
Ornchley Road Arfington Road 925pm
Blast tram the Past Ham, 123pm,
3.55pm, 625pm, 9pm A Bog's Ufa
1 1 20am. 1 ,40pm A Ctvfl Aotton 1 .ISprn,
3.50pm, 620pm, 9.15pm The Faculty
3 45pm. 6.20pm, 6.45pm Madeline
11.45am Mighty Joe 10.50am, 725pm
P a yba ck 2pm. 425pm. 7pm. 920pm
Plunkett and Madeane 1 ,20pm,
340pm. 6.15pm, 6 40pm The Rugrats
Movie 11 20am, 120pm, 320pm, 520pm.
7.40pm Shakespeare In Love 4pm.
6 40pm. 925pm WSking Ned 12.40pm.
2 55pm. 5.15pm. 725pm. 9.40pm

UXBRIDGE

ODEON (08705-050007) O Uxbridge
A Bug's Ufa 1.45pm The Faculty
3J0pm.646pm9pmKgMyJoe11.4aan.
225pm. 430pm The Parent TMp 11 15am
Pknricett and Madeane 625pm. 905pm

WALTHAMSTOW

ABC (0870902 04241 & Walthamstow
Central The Faculty 220pm, 520pm,
8.10pm Payback 2.10pm. 830pm Plun-
kett and Madeane 1 50pm, 4pm.
8 35pm The Rugrats Movie 620pm
Shakespeare In Love 5.10pm

WALTON

THE SCREEN (01B32-252825) SR Wal-
ton on Thames A Civil Action 2pm. 6pm.
830pm Uttle Voice 3.10pm My Name
Is Joe 8 50pm Phmkett and Macfene
635pm The Rugrats Movie 4.15pm

DOVER

SILVER SCREEN (01304-228000):

Shakespeare In Love (15); The Ru-
grats Movie (U); A Bug’s Ufe (U)

EASTBOURNE

VIRGIN 10541 555159); Payback (16);
Waking Ned (PG); Plunkett and
Madeane (IS); M&My J°° (PG): A
Bug’s life (U); The Rugrats Mode (U):
Blast from Uie Past (32): The Facul-
ty (15): A Ctva Action (15): The Swan
Princess (U): Shakespeare at Love (15)

EXETER

ODEON (08705050007): Plunkett and
M a cfeane (15): The Parent Trap < p Gl:
Antz (PG): Mighty Joe (PG); The Fac-
ulty (15): Urban Legend (16): Small
Sokfiers (PG): The Rugrats Movie (U);
Payback (18): Babe: Pig In the city
(U): A Bug’s Life <U)

GREAT YARMOUTH

HOLLYWOOD (01483-642043); Mghty
Joe (PG): Phmkett and Madeane (15):
Madeline (U): A Bug’s Ufe (U): Antz
(PG); A Ctvfl Action (15): Waking Ned
(PG); Payback (181: The Rugrats
Movie (U): Babe: Pig in the city |U):
The Faculty (15)

GUILDFORD

ODEON (06705-050007): The Rugrats
Movie (U): Shakespeare In Love (15):
Ttoa with Mussolini (PG): Mgtaty Joe
(PG): A Bug's Ufe (U): Antz (PG): Pay-
back (18). The Faculty (15): Babe: Pig
in the City (U); Madeline (U): Bed-
rooms and Hallways ( 1 5) : Blast from
the Past (12); Small Solders (PG):
Plunkett and Madeane (15); Waking
Ned (PG); A Ctvfl Aettan (15)

IPSWICH

VI ROM (0670-907 0746); A Bug’s Ufe (U):
The Itapate Mode (U);M^*y Joe (PQ:
Blast from the Past (12): Aiflngton Rood
(15): then Aapke INI Mdn Hehte Ham
(PGl: The Facfety (1 5); Shakespeare in
Love (15); Problem Chad (PG). Payback
(18): ACM Action (15): Vtafctag Ned (PG);
You've Got M@n (PG): Plunkett and
Madeane (15); Patch Adams (12)

LEICESTER

ODEON FREEMENS PARK 108705-
050007); LeVfls*Befla(PG);M Mit y Joe
|PGl;TWveGotM@3 (PG): The Rospota
Monte (U). Smafl Sokflers (PG): Antz (PG);
A Bug's Life (U): American Htstory X
(16): A CMI Action (15); Patch Adams
( 1Z); The Parent T>up (TO): Madain o (U):
B ed r oo ms and Haflways (15): Blast
from the Past (12); Waiting Nad (PG):
Shakespeare m Love (15); The Facfe-
ty (15); Aibngton Road (15); Plunkett and
Madeane (15); Payback (18)

NORTHAMPTON

VIRGIN (0541-560564); Plunkett and
Madeane (15); Patch Adams (12):
Problem Child (PG): Blast from the
Past (12); The Rugrats Movie (U): Ar-
lington Read (15); Waking Ned (PG);
Sh a kespe are In Love (15): P a yb ack
(18); Mighty joe (PG); A CMI Action
(15): Kuch Kuch Hots Hal (PG); A
Bug’s Life (U): The Faodty (15)

NORWICH

ABC (0641-560567); Shakespeare In
Love (15); Waking Ned PGfcThe Hursts
Movie (U): A Bug’s Life (U); 8tast from
the Pest (12); Holy Man (PG); The Land
GW* (12): ACM Action (15): Adz (PG)

OXFORD

ABC GEORGE STREET (0541-550501):
Waking Nad (PG); A Bug's Ufe (U):
MgMy Joe (PG); Payback (18): Plun-
kett and Madeane (15)

PETERBOROUGH

CENTRAL LIBRARY <01733-348343),
Hana-8i (16)

PLYMOUTH

DRAKE ODEON (06705-050007): The
TIdn RedUne (151; Mdan (U) : The Tru-
man Show (PG); Waking Ned (PG); The
Faculty (15): Smafl Soldiers (PG):
layback (18); Plunkett and Ma dea n e
(15): A Bug's life (U); The Prince of
Egypt (U); Mighty Joe (PG): Dr Doflt-
He (PG); Babe: Pig In the CHy <U)

PORTSMOUTH

UCI G (0990-668990). A Bug’s Ufe (U):
Plunkett and Macfeane (15); Urban
Legend (181; Shakespeare Id Love
(151; Hideous Kfaifcy (15): Waking Ned
(PG); A CMI Action (15); Payback (78):
The Rvpvb Howie (U); The Faculty
(15): Madeline (U); Mghty Joe (PG)

READING

OOEON (06705-050007): The Faculty
(15): Plunkett and Madeane (75); Pay-
heck (1 8); The Prhaoo of Egypt (U); The
P aren t Trap (PG); Mighty Joe (PG):
The Rugrats Movie (U); A Bug’s Life
(U). Antz (15)

SAUSBURY

ODEON (06705950007): The Rugrats
Movie (U); WaMng Ned (PG): Mr Megoo
pGh Adz (PG): The RrauRy (1 5): The fe>
entffep (PCT; Shakespeare hi 1 one (15):
nunKett and Macfeane (75): A Bag’s
Ufe (U); Mgbty Joe (PG); Payback (18)

SOUTHAMPTON

ODEON LEISURE WORLD (08705-
050007): Dr DoRttle (PG); The Prince Of
Egypt (U): ArBngton Hoad (15): This
Year's Love (18); The Thin Red Lhm
(15); The Rugrats Movie (U): Lock,
Stack A Two Smoking Barrel* (18);
Tfea with HussoEni (PG): MaddBoe (U1;
The Faculty (15); Blest hem the Past
(12); Payback (IB): Small SokSen
(PG), A Bug's Ufe (U); Mghty Joe iPG):
American History X (18); Shake-
speare in Love (15): Very Bad Things
(18): Urban Legend (iS): Phmkett and
Madeane (15): A CM Action (15); Jack
Rost (PG): Mulan (U): Bedrooms and
Haflways (1 5) ; Antz (PG): Peteb Adam*
C13: VfeVo Got M@a (PG); DfeUng Ned
(PG): Babe: Kg bi the etty (U)

VHtiSW (0541-555132): ACM Action fl5);
A Bug’s Life (U): Plunkett and
Macfeane (15): Mghty Joe (PG); The
Rwtpat* MOvfe (U); The Faculty C5):
Payback (18): S hake spe a re In Love (15)

SWANSEA

UC* 10 PARK TAWE (0990-888990); A

Bug’s LHe(U}:Arfingfen Hoed (15); La
Vita A Befla (PG): Blast from the Ffest
(13; Saving Private Ryan (15): George
of tbe Jungle (U); The Prince of Egypt
(U); Payback (18); Jack Frost (PG);
Plunkett and Macfeane (15); The Ru-
gi*t* Movie (U); The Faculty (15), Ur-
ban Legend (iej: EaUra (15); Small
SoMfen (PG); Maddne (U); ACM As-
W* (15); Waking Med (PG,; Hideous
Kinky (15); Shakespeare In Love
(15): Hkjhty Joe (PG)

THEATRE *-

CAMBRIDGE

WARNER VILLAGE (01223-460441);
Mast from the Past (12): Waking Ned
(PG); The Rinpeta Movie (U); Aiflng-
ton Road (15); The Faculty (IS):
Shakespeare hi Love (IS); A Bug’s
Ufe (U); La Vita * Befla (PG); A Ctvfl
Action (15); Payback (18); Plankett
and Macfeane (15); Mighty Joe (PG)

West End

CANTERBURY

ABC (0541-555133); A Ctvfl Action (15):
The Rugrats Movie (U): Phmkett and
Madeane (15); Urban Legend (18);
Payback (18); A Bug's Life (U)

CARDIFF

UC1 12 (0670-003 4567); The with Mus-
safe (PG); Shakespeare in leva (15):
A Chril Aettan (15); The Faculty (15);
Jack Frost (PG); The Rugrats Movie
(U); American History X (1 8): Wdeous
Kinky (15); A Bug’s Ufa (U); Arifegton
Road (1 5): The Taras Chainsaw Mas-
sacre (18): You’ve Got M@il (PG);
Jaaaaia Samjha Karo (NC); The
Prince of Egypt (U); The TNn Red Une
(15); Mighty Joe (PG): Saving Private
Ryan (15): Madeline (IT); Blast from
the Past (12): Waking Ned (PG). Pay-
back (18); Phmkett and Ma c fera e (15)

CHELMSFORD

ODEON (01245-348588): Plunkett and

kUcleane (15); The Faculty (IS): ACtv-
II Aettan (15): The (tagpots Movie (U):
Madoflne (U); The with IfemoM (PG):
Shak espe a re in Love (15): Waking
Ned (PG): Blast (ram the Past (12);
Patch Adams (12): Mghty Joe (PG):
A Bug’s Ufe (U); Payback 081

COVENTRY

ODEON (06705-050007): The Faculty
(15); The Parent Trap (PG): Payback
(18): Urban Legend (16): Antz (PG): The
Rugrats Movie (U): Mghty Joe (PG):
Waking Ned (PG); Plunkett and
Madeane (15): A Bug’s life (U)

Ticket araiatalsy detais are for today; flmes
and (vices for (he week; running tones
include intervals. • — Seats at afl pneea
y — Seas at soma prtoes O— Returns only
Matrices - [1]: Son. (3J- Tue. («]: Wed. [5]-
Thur. [6]: Fri. (7J: Sal
•AMADEUS Band SudhH .dare as Sriferi
Old Vie TheCut. SEl pi 71 -J»i 5372ta: 494
5372) BRre Wstotoo. MorvSffl 730pm. (4J
230pm. [7] 3pm. £750-00. 160 nvns.

• ANIMAL CRACKERS Stage verson
of the Marx Brothers' movie classic

Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0171-494

5045) «• P icc Cue. Mon- Sat 7.45pm. (4][71
3pm. £9 50-530. 150 mins.

• ART Tom foannioo. Danny Webb and
Gary Olsen in Yhsmina Rczn's comedy.

WynAm's Channg Cross Road, WC 2

[4| 3pm. [7][1] Spin E9.5M27.50 Wnwis.

IBEMJTYANDTHEBEASTLavtshCam-

fly nneicil hased on Disney's versxxi at ihe
lairy-taJe. DoraMon Tbeertwm C<Mt Road.
Wl (0171-^6 1883) -e Tot! Q RcL Mon-3dl
730pm, [4I[7] 230pm E1850-E35 190mra.

• BLOOD BROTHERS Willy
Russdrs lona^imning UvHpudfian otuacaL
Hioenta ‘3tanng Cross fload. WC2 (01 71 -
368 1733) «■ Lew Sq. Mon-S* 7.45pm.
(5) 3pm. (7) 4pm £11 50- £32.50 166 mms.

• BUDDY Musical biog-show tracing the
life of Buddy Hoflv Strand Atdwych. WC2
(0171-830 8S.C) O Covert Gerterv. Tue-TNjf
8pm. Fn 5.30pm S 8.3Cpm. Sat 5pm &
8.30pm matt (1 1 4pm C1OC30, haH price
Fn mate. 160 rrvrs.

I CATS LJoyd Webber's musical version
of TS Eliot's poems. New London Part
er Street. WC2 (CH71-J05 0072,'cc 404
4079) ■O Govern Garden /HoJbom M-an-Sat
7.45pm. |3J[7] 3pm. £10 SO-C3S 185 mins.

I CHICAGO Maria Friedman and Peter
Davison star in this hit Broadway musical
Adeiphi Maiden Una. WC2 (0171 ->u

0055) -e Channg > M-an-Sat 6om. |4]|7)
apm. £16-236 frncl booking fee) 1 30 nuns.

•THE NEW ROCKY HORROR SHOW

Itoenty-fifUi anniversary of the cult nock ‘o'
rod musical, starring Jason Donovan.
Victoria Pataca Victoria Street. SWi
(0171-834 1317) BW Victoria. MorvThur
8pm. Fn 5.30pm & 830pm. Sat 5pm &
830pm, endsSJun. C1050-E29SO. I40mlns.

• OKLAHOMA! Maureen Lipman stars
in the NabonoTs acclaimed production.
Lyceum Welingtcn Street. WC2 (067M06
3446) ■©• Channg X. Mon-Sal 7.30pm. (4][7]
230pm. ends 26 Jun C10-E35. 180 mins
OTHE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA An
drew IJqyd Wdtber's Gothic musical. Her
Majesty's Koymartet. SWI (0171-J94
5400/toe 344 4444) & Pice Ore. MarvSat
7.45pm. [4] [7] 3pm. £10- £35. 150 mns.

O PLENTY Cafe Blanched, stare in Ihe
revh-al of David Hare's 1978 hit about a
<war veteran's disUIusmnnenL AIbgry
St Mertm's Lane. WC2 |0in-369 17301
^ L« SQ. M0(l-Sat 730pm. [5](71 3pm,
ends 10 July £7 50- £29.50.

• THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
1 WKX1AM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)

| Reduced Shakespeare Company Cast -for
wards through 37 pin vs. Criterion Fic-
catirfty Cirait.. W1 (01 71 ^389 17471 e- Pice
Cite Wea-Sat 8pm. [51 3pm. (TJ 5pm. (1|

1 4 pm C10-E25 120 m/ns

I COPENHAGEN Drama from Michael
Frayn about the discovery of th-? atom.
Duchess Cathenne Street. WC2 (017 1-494
S07Bfcc844 4444)0 Covert Garden Mon-
SaiTJOpm. [51(7) 230pm CT0-C30. 145 mins

• DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN Mark
little stare in this comedy >:J the sexes.
ApoBa Shaftesbury Avenue. Wl (0171-494
5070) Pec Cue. Mon-Thur 8pm. Fn & Sal
6pm & 8 45pm C5-C25. cones available

• TIE DISPUTE Marivaux’s quasi-sri-
entific dram a, directed by Neil Rarllcti. Lyric
Hananerearith King Street W6 (0i 81 -741
23li)OHammeremth. Mcn-Sat 730pm [7]
2.30pm, ends 22 May. £S-£i8 90 mns

• DR DO LITTLE FhilUp Schofield talks
In the animals in this .stage adaptation
featuring Jim Henson Puppets. London
Apollo Hammersmith Ouean Caroline
Street W6 (0l7i-4ifi 6022) 6 Hammer-
smith. Tue-Sal 7 30pm. [4|[7j 2 JOpm. ends
28 Aug. C12.50-E32.50 150 mms

• THE GIN GAME Joss .Ackland and
Dorothy Tutin in this sensitive and funny
drama which centres around a lengthy
game of Cin Rummv. Savoy Strand. WC2
(0171-836 8888/cc 836 CM 79) BR7©- Char-
mg X/EmbartarenL Mon-Sal 7 45pm. (5] (7)
3pm. ends 5 Jun. £9.50-227 50.

-3 GOOD Charles Dance in CP Thytor's
deceptively humorous drama. Donmar
Warehouse Esrlham Street. WC2 10171-
369 1732) 6 Covert Garden. Mon Sat
7_3Gpm, (5][7] 3pm. ends 22 May C14-E22.
cones ava/LaOie

(GREASE Energetic stage version of ihe
hit eira, starring Darren D^y. Cambridge
Earl ham Street. WC2 (0171-494 5030)
OCovertt Garden. Mon-Sat 7.30pm. [4)[7|
3pm El 0-232^0 ISO nuns.

• GROSS INDECENCY* THE THREE
TRIALS OF OSCAR WIUE Mkhael Pton-
ningtno and Wfliiam Hoyiand in this re-
candnjcthxiaf the downfoD of the ceiefaialed
ptaywrighL Gtalgod Shahesbizy Avenue.
Wl (0171-494 5065) O Pec Crc. Mon-Sat
7.45pm. [4ir7| 230pm (7 50-229 S3

• AN INSPECTOR CALLS Stephen
Dabby's acclaimed production of JB Priest
ley's thriller Garrick Channg Cross Read.
WC2 (0171-494 5085) «• Leic Sq. Mon-Fn
7.45pm. Sat 8.15pm. [4] 2.30pm. [7] 5pm
E12-E29.50 HO mns

• MA CBETH Rufus Sewell and SaDy
Deader portray thwarted ambition. Q u o
•ufe Shaftesbury Avenue. Wi (0171-184
5040) -e Rcc Ctrc. Mon-Sat 730pm. [7)
23feim.a*bSJin.ElQ5fr£2BSa 140 mra.
W MAKMG NOCSE QUKTUr Robert Het-
man pieces depicting encounters between
strangen in the shadow of war. Wldldiafl
WhtehaB.SWI (0171-369 173Sfcc 8671 111)
BfVG Charing X. Mon-Saf 730pm. [7]
230pm. ends 22 May. 26-221. 135 mins

0 MAMMA MIA! Musical about a moth-
er’s reflections on her daughter's wedding,
packed with Attn hits. Prince E d wa rd Ofo
Compton Street. Wl (01 71-447 5400) ■©■Le-
rc Sq. Mon-Sal 730pm. [51(7] 3pm. 21 5-E3S.

• THE MEMORY OF WATER
.Alisao Steadman and Julia Sawalha star in
this touching comedy about sist&s. Vaude-
ville Strand. WC2 (0171-636 9967)
BRf0 Channg X. MorvSa 8pm [5]f7| 3pm.
28-22730. 120 mms.

1 LES WsErables Musical dramati-
sation of Victor Hugo's masterpiece.
Palace ShStesbuy Avenue. Wi ( 0171-434
0909| •©• Rcc Crc. Mon-Scfl 7.30pm. (5][7]
230pm. £7-235. 195 mins.

I MISS SAIGON Musical which resets
the Madam Butterfly tragedy to Vietnam.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Cathenne
Street. WC2 <0171-494 5060)
Covert Garden Mon Sat 7.45pm. (4] (7]
3pm. £8.50-235. 165 mins
• THE MOUSETRAP Agatha Christie's
evergreen whodunnit. St Martin's West
Street. WC2 (0171-836 1443) ■©• Lo*c Sq
Mon-Sal 8pm. [3] 2 45pm. f7] 5pm.

2 10-22450 135 mow

Beyond west end

Tue-Sun 6pm. mats Sal S Sun 330pm. ends
1 8 Apr 21 2-214. cones £B. Upper Street N1

18 Apr 212-21*. cones EB. Upper Street N1
(0171-228 19161 O' Angel.

LYRIC STUDIO Four-Hundred Jokes
with the Devil Tragi -comedy abouL one
man's foiled attempt to make an epic film
about Mexico Mon-Sal 8pm. mats Sat 4pm.
ends 17 Apr. 29. cones, 25. King Street. W6
(0181-741 2311) O Hammersmith.

RIVERSIDE STUDIOS Blood Knot

Athol Fhgard's brilliantly lucid drama
examines the issues in apartheid and
racism. Tue-Sun 7.45pm. ends 25 Apr. 2i0.
cones 26. Cnsp Road. W6 10161-237 1111)
G Hammersmith.

TRICYCLE THEATRE Up Against the

Wall New black musical set in the 1970s.
comptele with huge afro wigs. MorvFn 8pm.
Sat8.15pm.mris Sat * 15pm. ends 17 Apr
26-213.50. Kilbum High Road. NW6
(0171-32B 1000) 9 Kibum

AROUND THE
Country

BASINGSTOKE

HAYMARKET THEATRE Shakers
Re-stirred Comedy about (he lives and
loves of four long-suffering waitresses in
a cocktail bat Moo-Sat 7 45pm. ends 1 May.
£930-21 530. Wole Street (01 256-465566)

BRIGHTON

THEATRE ROYAL The Late Middle
rtaeaeg HaroM Pinter directs Sudoo
G ray's stuc(y or fomity conflict beneath the
surface of middle doss respectability in
1950s England. Tue-Sri ’ 45pm. mats Thur
230pm. Sal 4pm ends 17 Apt £8 iZMM 8 50.
Bond Street (01273-326468)

KD MEDIA The Treabnenl Comedy on
roller skates senna hospital, involving a
raging hypochondriac and a bogus doctor.
Tonight 8.30pm. £630. cones £5 Gardner
Street (01273-647100)

BRISTOL

HIPPODROME THEATRE Phantom
of the Opera Thur of Andrew LJqyd Web-
ber’s huge hit musical, set in and beneath
the Paris Opera House. Mon-Sat 730pm.
mats Wed & Sri. 2 30pm. ends 22 May.
£10-230. cones available Si Augustmes
Parade (0117-929 9444)

RIDINGS HIGH SCHOOL ARTS CEN-
TRE Kissing Sid James Adult comedy
about a couple trying to revive their (lag-
ging romance by a naughty weekend away.
Tonight 7.30pm. 28. cones 25. High Street
101454-2520341

CANTERBURY

MARLOWE THEATRE Joseph and

the Amazing Te dm icot u r Prea mco at

Tun Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's
musical version cf the BAtc story Mon-Thur
& Sat 230pm & 7.30pm. Fn 5pm & 8pm.
ends 2* Apr £1 0- £21. cones available.
The Friars (01227-787787)

CHELTENHAM

EVERYMAN THEATRE Perfect Pitch

John Godber’s adult comedy about
neighbourly lensioqs on a caravan site.
MorvFrt 7.45pm, Sat 8pm. ends 17 Apr.
£6.5005, cones available Regent Street
(01242- 5 72 5 73)

Box Office

THE THURSDAY REVIEW

The Independ ent 15 Apnl 1999.

• THE PRISONER OF SECOND AV-
ENUE Richard Dreyfus* and Marslu Mj-
son star in Ned Simon* mid-life ensk
ccmafr Thwntre Royal, Haynwhet Hay-
marhrt. SWi ©1 n «0 8800) ■& Pcc Cue
Mcn-Sa 7 45pm. [4] [7] 3pm £10232 50

• RENT Musienl inspired by La fluhe me
and set in modern day New Ttirt Shaftes-
bury ShaJlesburv Avanua. WG2 (07000-
211221) • Holbom MorvSal 7 30pm.
[4J[7] 3pm E12 50-C32 5CI 1 60 mins
ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE
I LYTTELTON 1 Th* Geometry of Mir-
acles Robert Lepage's latest wort » in-
spired by the drawings and buildings of
Frank 1 Joyd WnghL In rer toregrit 7pm

» OUVJER: CantSde Voliaire - comkr
masterpiece, tcanmng an all slar cast.
In rep. tonight 7.15pm. ends 22 May.
Olivier & Lyttelton. £8-£32 South Bor*. SE1
(0171-452 3000) BR/^ Waterloo

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
•THE BARBICAN The Winter's Tife

Antony Sher stare in this tale of obsessive
jealousy, in rep. today 1 45 pm & 7 1 5pm.
ends € May.

THE INFORMATION ON

The Cranberries

i'* *_■£ '

• THE PIT: Roberto Zucco Drama by
KuUes. inspired b> a wanted poster, in rep
today 2pm S 7 15pm. ends 1 May Barbi-
can Theatre £5-226 The Pr 21 1-21 8 SO
Barbican Centre. EC2 (0i7i«J8 8891)
Pfl/O Bartxcan

• SACRED HEART New writing Erom
Mkk Mahoney in which two friend; strug-
gle Ut come in lorms aiLh their pasts and
daunting futures. Royal Cduri Upstairs
(at The Amhsssadora) Wea Street WC2
( 01 7i -565 5000) Lew Sq Mon -Sal 7pm.
ends 2* Apr. £10. cones 25.

I SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Hit 1971*.
musical featuring songs by the Bee Gees.
London Palladium Argyll Street Wl
(0171494 5020) ©■ Oxford Crt Mon-Sat
730pm [4]f7] 2 30pm dO-23230 135rrins

• STARLIGHT EXPRESS Andrew
Linvd Webber's hi-tccri roller- musical.
Apolla Victoria WXIon Road. SWi (0171-
41663701 BR' 1 ©- Vtatona Mon-Sri 7 45ptn.
[3JH 3pm £12 50- £30 150 mms

• SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Tennessee William s' chilling lale of moth-
erly love starring Sheila Ouh. Comedy
Pamon Street. SWi (0171-369 1731 )
9 Picc Circ,T.«.: Sq. Mon-Sal 6pm. [51 [71
4pm E760-E27 50.

• THE WEIR Conor McPherson's mov-
ing drama, set in Ireland, examines ideas
of ghosts and angt-b Royal Court Down-
stairs (at the Duke of York’s) St Mar-
tin s Lane. WC2 10171-565 5000) O- ia*c
Sq/Charmg A Mon-Sal 7 30pm. [4][7|
3J0pm £5-225 90 nuns.

• WEST SIDE STORY New. hit
production of Bemsuan's dassic musical,
attempting to recreate the feel of the orig-
inal Broadway hiL Prince of Wales
Coventry Street. Wi (Ci 71-839 5987)
<>• Lee Sq/Wcc Oc Mon-Sx 7 45 pm [5|[71
3pm 218 50-235 160 nuns

1 WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND Andrew
Lloyd Webber's newest musical, based
on the film of the same name. AJdwych
Aidtvych, WC2 (0171^16 6000/cc 836
2428) Holbom MorvSat 7 45pm [5][7!
3pm. C10-C32 SO 120 nuns

I THE WOMAN IN BLACK Susan Hill's
chilling ghost ston. Fortune Bussell
Street WC2 101 71 -836 2238TOC 3*4 4444)
■0 Covert Garden/Holbom Men- Sri 8pm.
(3J 3pm. 17] 4pm 23.50-C23.50 HO mins

Who Are They?

Limerick rod; foursome, spearheaded
by the warbling, newty blonde Dolores
OTUordan i below, rumoured to be the
fifth richest woman in the British
Isles), and currency a tte mptin g a
comeback with a new album. Bury the
Haichet and their first foil show for
more than two years (Shepherd’s
Bush Empire on Monday).

Despite having cracked ■

America and selling almost SO \\i
million albums worldwide, the
band’s last offering. JFbr the
Faithful Departed, was
universally (fissed, and map

lingering doubts remain
about 0*Kordan's persistent
yodelling: one critic recently H
advised the rest of the band S

to go solo.

What: They Say About Them

N olan sis tor Tjnger’ metwitha

OTtiordan sounded bored with her
own melodic skflL barking st die
crowd to ‘sing if,” Mike Higgins,

The independent

V \ *Tlie Cranberries seem stranded ; -

between the sublime and the . . ... ... ~ -

rkficnkitis,nlillmg a limited ' -

S repertoire vocal tics and keepii^ place. CaroBDe , .

increasiiiglygcacdessmdoifies.’' SuUrran. The Ouardtan.

Stephen Dalton, Tlie Times.

sa«

“Whfle (yRiordan stalked the stage
k iflee a tigress m

search of tasty
1 sfageriiivers,

* the rest of

> toe gnu®

Where feu Can Catch Them ~

The band are gearing up fbrawiH^d ;

tom; with fiirtberffaitish dates in
November tyettobe oQnfirrpefbiThdr
new album, Bury&teBatc^iet, has just,
been released Mercury Records. .

CHRISTCHURCH

REGENT CENTRE A Sok fefe Song

Cuy Masierson performs bis own adapta-
tion of Ken Luknwiak's book about the
rt'irror of (he FXDdanck conflui Tonight Bpm.
M. cones £4. High Street (01202-498146)

EXHIBITIONS

Classical

Events

COLCHESTER

MERCURY THEATRE Unde Vanya

Ore k hov's tragt-oooiedy about pmiou a aizl
regrets amongst a disintegrating fomtly.set
on 0 run-down FLiasiaa estate. Won-Sal
7 30pm. ends 24 Apr. E6.S0-£i5.50.
Balkem* Gala (01206-573948)

EASTBOURNE

DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE And
Then There Were None Agatha
Chnsiie's classic theatrical whodunnit,
set in a lonely bouse on a remote Bland.
Mon-Sri 8pm. mats Wed S Sri 2J0nn. ends
17 Apr. £7-£il. cones available. Compton
Street (01323-412000)

BATH

THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
SOCIETY For Most of It I Have No
Words: Simon Norfolk Photographs
from sites ofimb-centnry geoodde- Moo-
Sun 9 JOam-a^Opm, ends 6 Jun. tZJM,
cones £1.75. The Octagon Galleries,
MSsom street (01225-462341)

BRISTOL

COLSTON HALL Go— mo uth 8|fr
phony Orcbeatra/Litton

ESgaris Viofin Concerto with Walton’s 1st
Symphony. TortgW 750pm. E9BOE21 -60.
Cototon Street (01 17-822 3686)

COVENTRY

SQUARE FOOT GARDENING Disoav-
er bow to mate the moot of even tissmafl-
est of gardens. Ryton Gardeos Today
10am-iZ30prn. 215. Ryton-an-Ounwnare
g)1 203-30331 7)

GUILDFORD

YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE Vertigo

.Anthony' -Andrews and Jenny Seagrfvc star
in this adaptation of the French novel which
inspired .Alfred Hitchcock's celebrated
film. MorvThur 7.45pm, Fr S Sffi. 8pm. mala
Thu & Sat 2J0pm . ends 24 Apr £1 0-E21 SO.
conca available Millbrook 101483-440000)

BRECON

THEATR BRYCHEDflOOlho Pneraa at
Jules Laforgue: Patrick Cafe Md

Prints by tbeftqj artist, based on the wnrit
of the FYencb poeL Man-Sat lOarrvfipm. ends
1 8 Apr. tree. Canal Wharf (01 874-61 1 623

CHELTENHAM
PITTV1LLE PUMP ROOM Barttaan
Plano Trio Classical piano brkw from Ihe
fine threesome. Tonight 8pm. £7.50 & £10.
Albert fload (01242-523352/cc S238SO)

MUSIC

BRISTOL

WATERSHED Blind Faith: lain
McGregor Images exposing conventions
snmnmSngfoitfa. MorvSun 9am-l 1 pm. ends
i3 Jun. free. Cation's Road (0117-625 38*5)

HARLOW

HARLOW PLAYHOUSE Olhrar Lionel
Bart's popular musical based on Dickens'
dassic lale of a waif who falls in with a den
of thieves. Wed-Sat 7.30pm. mal Sm
2.30pm. ends 17 Apr. £6-£3. The High
10 12 79-»3 1945)

CAMBRIDGE

FnzWUllAM MUSEUM Racent Ac-

Prints Etching, allographs, woodents and
stzeenprints. Ends 2 May. free.
Rembrandt and the Passion The mu-
seum’s outstanding print collection. Tue-Srt
1 0am-5pm. Sun 2. 1 5prrv-5pm. en^SIJua
free. Trumpington Snst (01 223-332900)

HACKNEY EMPIRE Leandro Clown?
Cabaret? Silent Movie? ?

Mesmerising mime sb.<w from the rubber-
faced down, i 51 7 Apr 7 30pm 18 Apr. 4pm
tiO-CIS Mare Sveei. E8 (0181 -985 2«4)
BH. Hackney Central

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE Hush a bye
Mountain Jonathan Harvey's new play
uith th*' twin setting of Heaven and Earth.
Mon-Sal 8pm. ma& Sal 3 30pm. ends o May
£14-216. cones £8 Mon -5 Sal mats £9
Avenue Road. NW3 (0i7i-722 9301 1
-& Swiss Collage

KING'S HEAD, ISLINGTON And
Again— Monica Lissak’s fore-hander sei
in a London police station. 1 5- 1 8 Apr. 1 pm
£5 cones C4

Gob Ex-Take That good-looker Jason
Orange stars in this blistering but comic
attack on the bastions of art and culture.

HIGH WYCOMBE

WYCOMBE SWAN Pirates of
Penzance Paul Nicholas stars in this
swash-buckling r e workin g of the Gilbert
and Sullivan operetta Plastic MorvSat
7 30prr. mas Wed S Sri 2 30pm. ends
17 Apr £9.50-223 50 St Marys Street
(01494-512000)

CARDIFF

FFOTOGALLERV Common Sensei
Martin Parr Photographic installation

■gamming mnnmummi Tue-Sri 10am-
5 3Cpm. ends 8 May. free. Chari es Street
(01222-341667)

LONDON

BARBKAN HALL LSOfTflaoa Thomas

HOTdrisZlBt^rnphoqyandBrucknertflth.
Tortght 730pm. ES 50-C32. Bartrican Cen-
tre. EC2 (0171-638 8891) -e Moorgrie.
PURCELL ROOM Continuum
Ens e mble Music by Georges Apbergfa
and his co u te mpor aries. Tonight Bpm.
ro m cones £7.50. South Bank. SEI
(0171-960 4242) BHrO- Waterloo.

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL Mamrtalo
PofHnl Piano works by Schubert and
Scfamnann. Tonight 7J0pm. C8-E32. South
Bank. SEI (0171-8604342) BR/e-Watarioa
HimORE HALL The KZngfe Consort/
King Odes bgr Henry ParceH TortgW
7.30pm. CBC16. Wtgmore Street Wl (0171-
335 2141) ■©■ Bond Street

BOURNEMOUTH

JAMBS LAST ORCHEHH 1 A The k»gr

running and everiWpular easy-iisfening

v Jp

at Contra Tonight 8pm. E20-E27. S a fe r.
Road (01202-456456) . .-

OPERA

LEICESTER

HAYMARKET THEATRE The White
Devil Pad Kerrysoc directs John Webster's
dassic and graphic Jacobean tragedy.
15 i 16 Apr. 7.30pm. ends 30 Apr.
£6 50-114 50. cones available Betgrave
Gale (0116-253 97971

COLCHESTER

FDtSTSnE AT ROMAN HOUSE Antony

Gormleyfe Field for the British tales

Fbrly thousand terracotta fipzes. Tub. W6d.
Fri-Sun :2nootv6pm. Thur l2noorv7pm,
ends 23 May, Tee by donation. Queen Street
(012C6-577C67)

LEIGHTON BUZZARD

THEATRE Amy Johnson Drama about
the pioneering female aviator who disap-
peared in mysterious drcurasiances.
Today 1.30pm & Bpm. E6-E7. cones £4-25.
Lake Street (01525-3733101

EXETER

ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL
MUSEUM The Art of Mlda Carflnei
Mrs Stanley Spencer Exhibition
dedicated to the paintings of Spmcer’s firet
wife. Mon-Sat I0am-5pm. ends 3 May. free.
Queen Street (01392-265858)

LONDON

WILTON'S MUSIC HALL BroorahBI
Opera: The Slh rar Lake Conducted by
Charles Haziewood. Tonight 7.30pm,
ends 18 Apr. 215 & 220. Grace's ADey. El
(0171-420 0000) -» Tower VfflL

CARDIFF

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO,
aunN YOUNGBLOOD HART TheSouth •
African a capped* enwraihle who first
rose to fame on Paul Simon's Grncetaxl
xlhmn CerdHT I n te rna tional Arana.
Tonight 7pm, phone lor prices. May Aim
Street Butetown (01222-224488)

UURASOUND The szribiiiouB indie-rack
mi rib tour their thrashing debut album.
Ever y th ing Picture. CM Uor Bach
Tonight 8.30pm. £6. Woman by Street
(01222-232199)

ANOTHER LEVEL The sfick,chart-frienti
I y soul awzngbeet quartet St David’s
HaD Tonigfit 7pm. £1230. The Hayes
(01222-878444)

EXETER

SnaVMO OIKNIND The Brit bardoare

crew tour their current . album. An Y& : \
Expression of Repressed Wolence.^:' 1

LIT!: RATI RE

Expression of Repressed Vioience-is
Cavern Cfrdi Tonight Bpm. £2. Queer? '' '
Street (01392-495370)

MANSRELD

PALACE THEATRE Junk Adaptation
of Mefrm Burgess' controversial novel
about a group of young peepie in the
1 &BO 5 . caught up in a culture of drug
abuse, prosti union and broken friend-
ships. 15-17 Apr. 7.30pm. £5-£8.S0. cones
C6.50 Leemmg Street (01623^33133)

HERNE BAY

HERDS BAY MUSEUM AND GALLERY
Andy Goldsworthy The artist’s pho-
tographs of his temporary strurtnres cre-
ated frm stone, wood, leaves, snow and Ice.
Mon-Sat lOam^pm. ends 15 May. free.
Wiliam Street (01227-367388)

nun

GUILDFORD

HKX Reunion of the original metmbera
MicfeeyRnn. Jack Green and Paul ffentou.
Chic Hafl Tonight 3pm, phone for prices.
211 London Road (01433*44555)

NEWBURY

WATERMILL THEATRE Dangerous
Corner JB Priestley's classic thriller
about a suicide which is not afi it seems.
Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mat today 230pm. ends
8 May. £8-21630 Bagnor (01 635-16044)

LEICESTER

THE COY GALLERY Lost and Round

Found otyects and sculptures by Mike
Badger of the Las and sound by ffeul Hem-
ingof the lightning Seeds. Tue-Fri it am-
6pm. Sat 10am-5pm. e nds 8 May. free.
Granby Strea (0116-254 0595)

LONDON

INTERNATIONAL VOWES Poetry with
Leo Aylen, Elizabeth Bosner and Wanda
Ba/ford. Lauderdale House Tonight
8pm. E4, cones £3. Wateriwr Rari^ HjghgriB
Hfl. N8 (01 61-348 871 6) ■©■ Archway.
BERYL RAMBMDOE Bowfing from her

KING’S LYNN

SNAKIN' STEVENS, UNDA GAIL
LEWIS The swivel- hipped Welsh
rock’n’rollar is joined by Jmy Lee Lewis’
B ttle s ate Com Exc han ge Tonijyit apm.
21250-214.50. Marimt P la ce (PI 553-754864)

latest novel. Master Georgia. Water-
stone’s, Hampstead Tonight 7pm.
£2.50. Hampstead High Street NW3
(0171-794 109Q ■©■ Hampstead.

PETERBOROUGH

KEY THEATRE Samuel Papys Tbe
S o era ! Diaries Lively musical play in-
spired by the diaries of serial adulterer
Samuel Pepys. Mon-Thur 7.30pm. Fn & Sri
8pm. mas Thur 2.30pm. Sri 3.30pm. ends
17 Apr. £9.50-211.50. cones avariable
Embankment Road (01733-552439)

POOLE

POOLE ARTS CENTRE A DoSfe House

Ibsen’s dassic drama of female on&nri-
patioo. Torn g hi 7 . 45 pm. mat today 1pm.
27 50-211.50.

Electro Kenneth McLeish's haunting
and poetic translation of Sophocles' story
of torrid family conflict 16 & 17 Apr.
7.45pm. £7.50-211.50. King/and Road
(01202-685222)

SALISBURY

SAUSBURY PLAYHOUSE Colombo

Jean Anouilh'* stylish evocation of life in
the demi-monde of the Kiris theatre.
15-17 Apr. Bpm. mat today 2.30pm.
28-215. cones available. Malthouse Lane
(01 722-320333)

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

THE OTHER PLACE Oroonoko Aphra
Befan's Restoration novel is adapted by
Biyi BandefenMcIEng the tragic romaore
of the West African Prince. Tonight
7 JOpm. ends e Oa. C1O-E20. Southern La-w
(01789-295623)

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
Otheflo Michael Attenborough directs
Ray Fearon and Zoe Writes in Shake
speaiv's harrowing tale of jealous provoked.
Today Ipm 4 730pm ends 7 Oct £5-239.
waters**} (01TB9-295623)

SWAN THEATRE Tfera from Ovid Tim

St^de directs the lale Usd Hughes' verson
of Ovid's sublime epic poem. Today 1 30pm
S 730pm, ends 7 Oct 25-236. Waerside
(01789-295623)

WALSALL

BLOXWICH LIBRARY THEATRE

Tlra Wfld Party Story ofa debauched par-
ty in a Brooklyn appartroent in 1926 which
takes an unexpected turn with ihe arrival
of a handsome stranger. Tornghi 8pm. £4.
cones 23 Elmore Row (01922-653183)

WINDSOR

THEATRE ROYAL Persuasion Helen
Hobson stars in Mark H cafe's stage adap-
tation of Jane Austen s dcgaic last novel.
Mon-Sal 6pm. mala Thur JL3Qpm. Sat
4.45pm, ends 24 Apr. 26-225, cones
aval ladle. Thames Street (01753-853888)

Mow Booking

NICK CAVE aspires to “subversive excellence"
as guest director of this year’s Meltdown. Tbe
line-up includes Nina Simone (below, l July)
and Cave himself in the opening concert
RFH, QEH & Purcell Room. South Bank,
London SEI (0171-960 4242) 17 Jun-2 Jul

Last Chance to Book

FOLLOWING IQS Grammy Award-winning
collaboration with Burt Bacharach, Elvis
Costello (below) joins Steve Nieve for a short j
tour, ending tomorrow. Royal Albert HaU,
London SW7 (0171-589 8212 ) tomtit; Symphony
HaU, Birmingham (0121-212 3333) tomorrow

LONDON

DESIGN MUSEUM Mini: 40 Yoon of
a Design lean Mnfh desisted by celebri-
ties mark tbe 40th anniversary of the
vehicle. Ends 9 May.

Modarn Britain 1927-1939

Inclu d e s w o rks tyFtancis Bacon, Rail Nash
retd Barbara Hepworth. Mon-Sun 11 JOan-
6pm. ends 18 Jul £5 25, con es 24. Shad
Thames. SE1(01 71-378 6055) Tower WL
NATIONAL GALLERY HorfeoHa by to-
graa Major exhibition of painting! mid
drawings by the l9tfa-oenhBy French artist
Mon. Tue. Thur Sun 10am-6pm. Wed 10am-
10pm. ends 25 Apr. 26. cones 24. Wed 24
7pm- 10pm.

Orazio GentflosctJ at tbe Court at
Charles l Rare exhibition exploring the
work of the I7tb-centuiy Italian artist
Mon. Tue, Thur-Sun 1 QanHSpm, Wed IQarrv
9pm. ends 23 May. free.

Hogkrr Van Der Wey den In the
National Gallery Paintings by the 15tb-
oeohiry Dutch mastec Mon. Tue. ThrrSui
1 0anfipm. Wad I0am4pm. emte 4 JJ, free.
Trafalgar Square. WC2 (0171-747 2885)
■©■ Charing Cross.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Artists of tea 1990s Photographs of
artists including Darrtea Hirst and Chris
Ofill Ends 25 Apr. free.

Perfonnancws: David Dockland
Celebrity portraits coxr&ining text nod
photography. Ends 23 May. free.

— tola; Port ra i ts Pre-Raphaelite por-
trahs. Man-S» 10am-6pm, Sun l2noorv6pm.
ends 6 Jun. 24. cones £3. St Maitns Place.
WC2 (0171-306 0055) ^ Charing Cross.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS Monet la

tee20te Century Pointings made In tbe

26 yeors after IflOtt MorvTrte 9arrv6pm. Fn
ftartvl 1 pm. Sri 8am-t 1pm, Sun 8arrv6pm.
ends 18 Apr. £9. cones 26. chid (12-1ffl 23.
child (8-1 1)21 .50.

Xa ndhafc y'— Wntoiuutoas and Oth-
or Worts on Paper Works spanning the

career of the abstract artist. Mon-Thur, Sal

8 Sun 10am-6pm, Fri I0anv630pm ends 4
Jii 26. cones C4Aa NUS 24. cnid 112-18)
2250. cm ( 8 - 11 ) £150. Burfngton House.
PracHy.Wi <0171 -3008000)*- Gram Ptek.

TATE GALLERY Works au P ap er and
Pfenttogs: Franete Bacon Preriooafe
unknown worts. Ends 2 Stay. free.

FfcramaeyiDiwnlcnltost bstaftifltwex-
ptoring modem nwfidne. Ends 2 May, free.
Scrapbeap Sendees: Mchael Landy
of mannequins. Ends 2 May. frea
Jackson PoHocfc Major Abstract Ex
prosslomst retrospective. Ends 6 Jun.
C7 .50, cones 25. tamfly £ 1 B (fireteaH 0870-
842 2233 + £1.60 bkg foal.

Ttmrarfe Last Papers 1820-Si Ex-
amines the paper l\irr>er used for his lat-
er work. Ends 13 Jun. free.

When Robots Kris— lira One Mauls
Factory: Cfcrls Burden
insunatton Of planes, Ends 27 Jun free.
Dange rous Unisons: Bartrara Hep-
^ i f* and Bon Mcbotson Examining
ideas shared bj- the axpfe. Enas 1 1 Jul, kea
Dangorous Liaisons: Rodin and
CwBl * -total Exptaring the rebtirasWp be-
tween the artiste Mon-Sun loams 50pm

ends 11 Jul. tree. Mflbank. SWi (0171^87

0000) ^ PlmBco.

Dance

ALDERSHOT

TwaOlli MgM FUHengtb ballet based an
from Wiles' independent company, ibright
Bpm. C9-C13. Barrack Rood (01252-329155)

LONDON

ELMS COSTELLO WITH STEVE MEVE

Intimate concert featuring the great
songwriter and his longtime Attractions'
coflabaratec Royal Albert IWI lbreght
7.30pm. £15-240. Kensington Gore, SW7
(01 71 -589 821 Z)-0-rtghStrert Kensington.

NEWPORT

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, ANNIE
CHRISTIAN Ian McCulloch’s epic post-
punk Scooser giants eqjqying a major
rrtnro to fonn. Newport Centre tonight
750pm. 21250. Kmgsway 101633-662688)
BEDOUHl Tba hard-workii^ space-rock
combo with JBawkwind connections.
TJ’s Tonight 9pm, phonB lor prices.
Cterence Place (01633-218608)

Jazz, World, Folk

LONDON

QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL Ifionta

Includes new work from the U5 choreog-
rapher Dwight Rhoden. Tbnight 7.45pm,
endb 19 Apr 21 0C14. Sorth Bar* Centre, SEI
(0171-9604242) BR/©- Waterloo.

DORK ING

OCTOPUS Bob Martm m nltn namp hnnn
fronts this modern bop quartet Tba
WataraaB Ibright BJOpm. £8. rones 26.
Rttgate Rood (01306-887831)

SADLER'S WELLS Cloud Gate Dance
Theatre: Songs Of The Wanderers

Eastern and Western styles mrri in Lin
Kwai- Min's piece. Tue-Sri 8pm. ends
1 7 Apt C750-2375a Roaebny Aranue. B31
(0171-863 6000/cc 883 8000) & Angel

WWBiEDON THEATRE Arc Dance
Company Presents Dm Return of Don

Juan Dramatic comedy with Royal
Bate star IrtttMukhamedoRlbnicrt 730pm
27S«l45a ooncsavalabla The Broatway,
SWt9 (0181-540 0062) ■©• Wknttadoa

LONDON

Ol LAD ATZMON QUARTET The lm-

postag laaell contemporary jazz and fusion
BulF* Hoad tonight 8pm. 24, Ujns-
dale Road. SW13 (0181 -876 5241)
BR: Bamas Bridge.

SIERRA HAESTRA Party down with the
celebrated nine-piece »g| sa o utfit from
Cuba. Jazz Cafe. 15 & 16 Apr, 9pm. £15.
art* 212. Parkway. NWl (0171-916 6060)
Camden Town.

KENNY GARRETT QUARTET Tbe

Comedy

and electric fusion experience plays
John Cottrane and Sonny Rollins-styled

modern jazz. Pizza Express Jazz Ctob

Mon-Sun 9pm . £i5. Dean Streri, Wi
( 01 71 -439 8722) O Tottenham Court Fto«d.

BRIGHTON

THE LAUGHTER AKADEMY AT
AKADEMA Featuring Paul Zemin, Rob
HHcfamon^i and Johnny Blarney Tonight
830pm. 25. ooncs 2350. Manchester Street
(01273-7 0 9977)

SALENA JONES The bluesy US cabaret
siren in concert, accompanied by pinnhat
Paul Sawleli and saxist lain Dixon.
Pizza on the Parte. Mon-Sat 9.15pm &
l 1 -'Hi «•* M apr- E18. 216 In a*.
Knights bridge. SWI (0171-235 5273)
■©■ Hyde Park Comer.

LONDON

TH E BES T IN STAND-UP AT COME-
DY STORE Rwl Tbnkinson, phis Kevin
Gildea, Lee Hurst Dave Ftilton and MC

Pfi(i Witty. Tbrtght 8pm. £12, cores 27. Ox-

•ndon Street, SWI (0171-344 0234)
^ PtccadUy arcus.

JOE iOVAN O TRIO The progressive US
MBoptortstwitha powerful sense of firm.
Rnnaia Seottfe . MavSai 9pm & 1 1 30pm,
ends 17 Apr. £15, mams 24. Filth Street Wl

(0171-439 0747) Lacesler Sq^

Wl auw/CLAffiE MARflN TVroof Lon-

OXFORD

JONGLBIRS OXFORD With Michael
Smiley Hattie Hayridre. Stewart F Yanrtv
apdMarirHurtt. Tonight 7.45pm. £8. Hythe
Bridge Street (08454081 BIS)

from swing to souL Vortex, 15 a ie ftn?

® ok * Newington Church Street

N16 (0171-2546518) BR: Stoke Newington.

LOWESTOFT

SHEILA WHITE AND FRIENDS

P ^» ulflr standardE

E4 ' 50 ^ “arina

( 01502 - 573310 )

SALISBURY

WWL COOL AT CHY HAU. The robber

MILTON KEYNES

PBf TAN CI E Ja cq ui Mtgiee's 1960s Irik-
jan rotflt The Stables Tortght 8.15pm (
E13.S0. rones 210.50. StockweH Lane'
"Uvoraton (01906-563920)

SOUTHAMPTON

OTY ART GALLERY Twenty Qraat
Duttfi Paintings Indixfing work Rom-
brand ond\fennecr. TurSri 10ai>tipm, Sw

Ipm-lpm, ends 13 Jun. tree. (01703632151)

STIVES

TATE GALLERY Images «f Portmeor

Be«te tataatoa Itireid vifaris «, pn«n»8

Jy the roadent arfet Mon-Sa llam-rpm

Sun11em-5pm. ends 18 Apr. 2350 cones
22. POrthmeor Beatti (01736-796236)

SWANSEA

BRIGHTON

THE RATPACK LOUNGE AT THE
Ocean rooms sieaxe and toimsecore
sesaum. Tonight 10pm-2am £i. Morlev
Strew (0127^899069)

POOLE

AND FATS Alan Ebsdoti’s
rcnftmbers &e \osmtiary ym

8pm. £550. rangfend Road [01202-665223

POTTERS BAR

MNKWOimf AND FIELD

GUfNN VIVIAN ART GALLERY Eigh-
teenth Cantury Darby Peroaluh
Classic cenunka. Ends 25 Apr. free.
Syzygy: Alan Roger* Bl ^j pufln

Mead Artists’ contraating visions. Tue^un

1Qam-5pm. ends 9 May. free. Alexandra
Road (01732-651738)

LONDON

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beat fonmMaaslino and Lol Hammond.

J^P^S XT, ' 2 ' 30am ' ^ Cold harbour
Lana. SW9 (0171-733 7515} B (V9fruon

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RICHARD E GRANTS screen
persona was defined by his first
major role - the wonderfully
dissolute outsider in WilhnaU
and /. There are touches of
that in Keep the Aspidistra
Flying (S-SOpm Sky Premier),
Robert Bierman's moderately

successful evocation of the novel
by George Orwell, which
receives its first showing on
satellite tonight. Grant (rip/tfi
plays Gordon Gomstock. a
disillusioned copywriter who

packs it in to tzy out a more
Bohemian lifestyle as a poet in
grimy 1930s tambeth. Helena
Bonham Carter chips in lively
support as his frigid girlfriend.

REM returned to their roots
with their recent album. Up,
which met with a warm reception.
Despite years in the business,
they retain their ability to surprise
you with their music, as you can
witness on An Audience with
REM (12 mdn’t MTV).

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(76*32825) 130 Fish TV Fly Fishng (4603893*)
130 Ron TV Fsnng Texas (76*52669) 230 FA
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Sports (24830950) 430 fasde toe PGA Tor
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(34815641) 530 Football Leacpje Review
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Motor Racing - Formula Pakner Aud (3482)486)
730 Sports Auction ©7263*15) 730 The Rugby
CUi (44462863) 830 Spanish Footbal
(15254283) 1030 Bobby Charltons Footbal
Scrapbook (480993*8) 1130 Cfase.

TNT CLASSIC MOVIES

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Pnde and Prejudice- (*940) (548M689) 1030
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(5*37733) 730 Colorado Territory* (1949)
(46094738) 930 Some Came RrevWig (1968)
(39550738) 1130 Zigzag (1970) (48096688)
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635 Damon and Pythias (©62) ©9900790)

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DK3T1AL Oiy FROM 600AM - 700AM AND
BOO PM - T2MDW3HT

630 Ready or No* fW©79) 630 Echo POtot
(5428931) 730 Trouble at Breakfast (700-
BOQantl: Lucre and Jason host crazy features
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830 Hang Time (7094079) 930 Tempesti
(*©0776) 9-50 On toe Make (B125S2) 1030
Echo Point (54*9283) 1030 Holyoaks {70W15)
1130 Sweet Valey Ugh (1687283) 1130 Ready
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(7065467) 1230 Weird Serenes (5857950) 130
in the House (3063405) 130 Tanpeett
(761*302) 220 On the Make (872082831 230
HoByoaks (1735573) 230 fteaiy w N«
(6818844) 330 City Guys (17473*8) 430 Fresh
Prnce of Bd Air (1726825} 430 WP*d Science
(1722009) 530 fa toe House (6826699} 530

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Class 15944486) W30 Hodyoaks (70EGT9S)
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UK ARENA

330 When the Boat Comes fa (3837825) 3255
Good Musk (2*49028) 530 Cindy Sherman;
Nobody’s Here but Me (4776) 530 When toe
Boat Comes In (70047) 730 Good Muse
(6*825) 830 Qndy Sherman: Nobody’s Hers
out Me (73573) 930 Rutland Weekend
Television (964486L 935 The Crow Road
{7055221} 1130 Reviews Yen Can Use (30370)
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<230 Cndy Sherman; Nobody S Here but Me
(68TM2) iz30 When toe Boat Comes bi
(4039069) 1^15-330 Crow Road ©096326)

UK GOLD

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(7498738) 735 EastEndere ©495950) 830
The Bi (7069263) 930 The Bi (70B3863) 930
The House ol ESott (1775370) 1030 Rhoda
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Comedy Alternative Dads Army (9580456)

930 The Young Ones (239*93*) 935 Bottom
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BS ©4*3*96) 1235 The Bill (4003BS7) 1235
Between toe Lines (598*535) 130 Cfads Army
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Great Egg Race (8947554) 830 The Uviny Isfes
(2200931) B30 Tire VfeteSSa Show (1328863)
930 Esther (87843251 1030 Animal Hospital
(9*49115} 1030 Lion Country (2290738) 1130
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Fantastic (22103©} 1230 The Peer and toe
Peaches (8788641) 130 Gold Rush ternries
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Esfton (3895903) 230 OHdraris Hospital -
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(7883178) 330 Esther <9170080 430 TTre
Vtinessa Show (6453950) 530 Anmal Hospital
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830 The Zoo Keepers (1282234) 930 Mkacie
far Cancer (B32M05) 1030 Schoolgfa Mums
(8385592) 1130 Top Gear GTi ©944487) 1230
Tomorrow's Wbrid Plus (4992790) LOO Close.

UK STYLE

730 Ready. Steady. Cook ©960405) 730 Style
ChalengB ©949912) 830 The DIY Show
1228689) 830 Style Street ©201660 030 The
Leeure Hour (347*4*4) 1030 Rourfi Guide to the
WoridS (stands (B&iSSe) 1UW Home From
©4480281 1130 Home Front (6449757) 1230
The DIY Show (2212778) 1230 Change That
(8797399) 130 Cent Cook. Wen* Cook

(0989778) 130 Two Fat Ladies ©789370 230
Style Street ©0327*1) 230 Growing Places
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(9©T573) 430 Hofcfey n Style (I32©50) 530
Coast to Coast ©©8009) &30 Trades (9101350)
630 Geoff HamJtons Paratfsa Gardens
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Amenca (*049808) 3J0 Cybernet ©4404806)
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(49162293) 1245 Calendar News and Weather
(70254671 1235 Lie Detector (262491 2} 240
Emrnerdale ©9878399) 530 Torejtot ©07*67)
535 Calendar (399063J 1L20 Calendar News
and Weather (459689) 1130 Survivors (84776)
1230 Tales from the Daricacfe (7375790} 445
Jobfinder (32532*0)

TYNE TEES

As Yorkshire except: 1245 North East
News and Weather (7025467) 530 Lie Detector

(1009) 530 North East TortgW (27389) 1120
North East News ana Weather (459669)

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130 Honed Plant ©8875738} 130 Doors jo
Manual (99141009} 430 Rida Late (99266283)
530 Planed Plant Ufaed 5 (4*648*96) 530
Countdown (99280863) 830 Party Pottical
Broadcast by toe Welsh Lfaeraf Democrats
(70009*87) 635 Newyddon (7000873 B) 630
Hano (39502028} 200 Pobol y Cwm (41651660)
730 Party PoSftal Broadcasl by the Vlfeteh Uberi
Democrats ©6789883} Z35 Newyddon
(31138679} 836 Steymaker (8458404) 635
TertuY Mans ©2790399} 935 ShrtGona HaveM
©7285641) 935 Fnendc ©4706047) 1035
Dt&patdnes ©OT139G) 1030 Father fad
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«40 King of the « ©7231*3^ 1240 Fist on
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Concise Crossword

No.3897 Thursday 15 April

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ACROSS

I More puritanical (7)

5 TVpe of kebab (5)

8 Relaxed (5)

9 Perpetrator (7)

10 Traffic jam (5-2)

II Burgomaster 15)

12 Royal residence (6)

14 Epitome of straightness (6)
17 Unnerve (5)

19 Former student (7)

22 Feature (7)

23 Scout group (5)

24 Artist’s bipod (5)

25 Vfeepy (7)

DOWN

1 \fersesi5i

2 Put in place (7>

3 Decoration (51

4 Instructions for making
dish (6)

5 Quandary (7)

6 Highly-strung (5)

7 Pensioned on (7)

1 2 Feathers (7)

13 Shaped like dunce’s cap (7)

15 finish call (4.3)

16 Most recent (6)

18 Rds<5)

20 Extreme (5)

21 Part of flower (5»

Solution to yesterday’s Concise Crossword:

ACROSS: 1 Throe, 4 Untied iTime and tide), 9 Drachma, 10 Given. 11 line. 12 Ex-
tinct. 13 Sot, 14 Trap, 16 Oust. 18 Run, 20 Receive, 21 Afar. 24 Court, 25 Valuing, 2$ En-

DncL 13 Sot, 14 Trap, 16 Oust. 18 Run, 20 Receive, 21 Afar. 24 Court, 2a Valuing, 2$ En-
tire, 27 Beret DOWN: 1 Toddle, 2 Yearn. 3 Echo, 5 Negation, 6 Invents, 7 Denote 8
Valet 13 Splinter. 15 Recount. 17 Creche, 18 Reeve, 19 Bright. 22 Site; 23 Club. ’

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